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Indian PM Modi vows strong response to any future 'terrorist attack'
Modi warned that New Delhi would not tolerate "nuclear blackmail" in the event of further conflict with Pakistan.
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AFP - Mon, 12, May 2025
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PM Modi addresses the Nation on ‘Operation Sindoor’ via video conferencing on May 12. / PIB
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed May 12 to respond strongly to any future "terrorist attack" in his first address to the nation since the launch of after 'Operation Sindoor', India's response to the horrific April 22 Pahalgam attack.
Modi warned that New Delhi would not tolerate "nuclear blackmail" in the event of further conflict with Pakistan.
A weekend ceasefire which US President Donald Trump said he brokered appeared to be holding on May 12 after four days of intense jetfighter, missile, drone and artillery attacks -- the worst violence between the two nuclear-armed neighbors since 1999.
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Trump said May 12 that US intervention had prevented a "bad nuclear war." "We stopped a nuclear conflict... millions of people could have been killed. So I'm very proud of that," he told reporters at the White House.
Modi, in a televised address to the nation said Pakistan has chosen to attack rather than help it fight "terrorism". "If another terrorist attack against India is carried out, a strong response will be given," he said.
India accused Pakistan of backing the attack, but Islamabad denied involvement.
Spiral to war
The alarming spiral towards all-out war began before dawn on May 7 , when India launched missile attacks destroying "terrorist camps" in the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir.
Each side then accused the other of launching waves of warplane and drone strikes, as well as missile and artillery bombardments that killed at least 60 people on both sides.
"If Pakistan wants to survive, it will have to destroy its terror infrastructure," Modi said in his speech.
"India will strike with precision and decisiveness against the terrorist groups thriving under the cover of nuclear blackmail.
"India's stand is very clear. Terror and talks cannot go together... Terror and trade cannot go together... Water and blood cannot flow together."
His address came after the Indian army reported the "first calm night in recent days" in Kashmir and along its western border with Pakistan.
The flare-up in violence was the worst since the rivals' last open conflict in 1999 and sparked global shudders that it could spiral into full-blown war.
The rivals also accused each other of breaching the ceasefire just hours after it was unexpectedly announced by Trump on social media on May 10.
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