VARANASI: Defence Minister Sharad Pawar has said India was fully prepared to give a befitting reply to Pakistan if it indulged in actions, which were against the security and integrity of our country.
“India would teach a lesson to Pakistan. Not only its present generation but future generation would remember it for a long time,” he said addressing a meet-the-press program at Paradkar Bhawan here after unveiling a portrait of the late Congress(I) leader, Pt Kamalapati Tripathi on his 88th birth anniversary,
Referring to the resolution in Pakistan National Assembly on the Ram Janma Bhumi-Babri Masjid issue, he said it was a clear intervention in the internal affairs of India.
“Pakistan should avoid such things. Such actions affected the bilateral relations,” he said.
Speaking at a public rally in Chandauli, some 30 km from here, he said normalcy would return in Jammu and Kashmir within six month since security forces were determined to flush out militants.
The border areas were completely sealed in Jammu and Kashmir to check the infiltration of Pak-trained militants, he said,
Article extracted from this publication >> September 18, 1992