Independence Day: PM Modi warns ‘India will not tolerate nuclear threats’; strong message to Pakistan from Red Fort | India News

PM Modi addresses nation throughout 79th Independence Day.

NEW DELHI: On India’s 79th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the nation from the Red Fort, had a message for Pakistan – India will deal with terrorists and those that assist them as one, and any future misadventure will meet decisive retribution by the hands of its armed forces. Praising the navy, PM Modi stated the operation had inflicted heavy losses on Pakistan, with new proof of the injury surfacing every day. He reaffirmed that India would not bow to Islamabad’s “nuclear blackmail.” “What our forces achieved in Operation Sindoor has not been witnessed in decades,” PM Modi stated. “We have set a new normal in tackling cross-border terrorism. I salute our brave soldiers who delivered a punishment for the Pahalgam attack far beyond the enemy’s imagination.”PM Modi stated that India and its farmers have sole rights over the nation’s share of the Indus river waters, branding the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan as “unjust and one-sided.” PM Modi stated the decades-old settlement had brought on “enormous harm” to Indian agriculture, permitting rivers originating in India to irrigate “the fields of our enemies” whereas leaving Indian soil and farmers parched. “Blood and water cannot flow together,” he stated, including that the latest terror assault in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, which killed 26 individuals. “The waters that belong to India will be used by India, for India’s farmers alone. We will not tolerate any arrangement that deprives them. This agreement is unacceptable to us,” PM Modi stated. Signed in 1960 beneath World Bank mediation, the treaty has ruled the sharing of the Indus and its tributaries between India and Pakistan. Modi stated India’s farmers had endured “unimaginable losses” for many years beneath it — a state of affairs his authorities would not settle for.