Madurai: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday night warned Pakistan against meddling with India and said any more attack from the country will be retaliated “very strongly”.
He said he has been warning Pakistan not to play with India and that the Mumbai attacks should be the “last game”.
“We have been gaining strength day by day to counter terrorism from across the border. I have been warning Pakistan not to play games with us. (I have told them that) the last game should be Mumbai attacks. Stop it there,” he said at a public meeting in Madurai.
“If terrorists and militants from Pakistan try to carry out any attacks in India, they will not only be defeated but will be retaliated very strongly,” Chidambaram said in a speech in Tamil.
He said India would retaliate strongly if Pakistan makes any attempt to send infiltrators into India.
“We have strength to tackle any such infiltration,” the Home Minister said.
Chidambaram also spoke on the Naxals issue and said both Congress and BJP governments at the Centre had ‘underestimated’ the Naxals for the last 10 to 13 years.
“Now they (Naxals) were trying to create problems in the country with arms and weapons in their hands. They are not going to succeed in this,” he said, adding that the Centre is ready to have dialogue with them provided they lay down their weapons.
The Home Minister also said that the “Naxalites are our own countrymen and not enemies like Pakistan terrorists”.
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