NEW DELHI: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on Sunday said that he took the decision for the Indian Air Force to conduct Balakot air strikes as he thought that "the game" should be played from where terrorism is being remote-controlled.
Addressing a 'Main bhi Chowkidar' event, he said
Pakistan is in a fix because if it acknowledges the air strikes, it will have to accept that there was terror camp there.
"They have been saying that there are no terror camps. Now they have to hide it. They are not allowing anybody to go there. We've been told the Balakot area is being reconstructed by Pakistan to show that a school is being run there, so that people can be taken there and shown that no terror camp existed there," he said.
Those abusing Modi on Balakot air strikes are helping Pakistan with their statements, he said.
The event was beamed across the country at 500 places where gatherings of BJP workers, professionals, chowkidars (watchmen), traders, farmers among others heard the Prime Minister's address and interacted with him through video-conferencing.
Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated after Indian Air Force fighter jets bombed terror group JeM's training camp near Balakot deep inside Pakistan on February 26.
Pakistan retaliated by attempting to target Indian military installations the next day. However, the
IAF
thwarted their plans.
The Indian strike on the JeM camp came 12 days after the terror outfit claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama in which 40 soldiers were killed.