Modi calls for uniform action against terror groups

Mangalore Today News Network

Washington, June 9, 2016: With Pakistan obviously in mind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that terrorism was being “incubated in India’s neighbourhood”, and pressed for action without distinction against groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Taliban and the IS who share the “same philosophy of hate, murder and killings.”

 

In his address to the joint sitting of the U.S. Congress here, Mr. Modi said terrorism has to be fought with “one voice” as he commended the American lawmakers for sending out a clear message in refusing to “reward” those who preach and practice terrorism for political gains — an apparent reference to the recent blocking of sale of eight F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan.

Mr. Modi said India and the U.S. had overcome “the hesitations of history”, and called for ever-stronger economic and defence ties between the two countries.

“Let us work together to convert shared ideals into practical cooperation,” he said, lauding common democratic principles and hailing two heroes of non-violence, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.