Bhubaneswar, September 19: The government on Sunday said Saudi-born Osama bin Laden’s threat to launch a jehad and promote religious terrorism in India will be crushed with the same firmness as the country drove back Pakistani aggressors from Kargil.
Laden’s threat was yet another instance of religious terrorism and an attempt to disturb the democratic process in India as also communal peace in the country, Union Home Minister L K Advani said here. “Terrorist organisations and their foreign patrons are mistaken if they think that India is a soft state that will be deterred by their violent threats and acts,” he said. “Laden’s call also contained a threat to disrupt elections in Jammu and Kashmir,” the Home Minister added.
“This has come in the wake of stepped-up attacks by ISI-backed terrorist organisations on Indian security forces and citizens after Pakistan’s humiliating defeat in Kargil,” he said adding “the war in Kargil is over but Pakistan’s proxy war against India is continuing.”
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