NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India remains “steadfast as ever” in its determination to defeat terrorism and its “enabling ecosystem”, marking one year since a deadly clash with Pakistan.
“We remain as steadfast as ever in our resolve to defeat terrorism and destroy its enabling ecosystem,” Modi said on Thursday, a year on since the launch of what India dubbed “Operation Sindoor”.
“They gave a fitting response to those who dared to attack innocent Indians at Pahalgam. The entire nation salutes our forces for their valour,” he said in a statement.
India is also reported to be readying a test-fire of the latest model of the domestically developed ballistic Agni missile capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads.
Modi´s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in a post on social media, claimed the Agni-6 missile had a range of up to 10,000 kilometres.
It claimed that it would place India in an elite club of nations with such long-distance missiles.
“This missile will make India´s security impenetrable and place us among the most powerful nations in the world,” it said, without giving further details of the launch.
However, Indian media report that a ‘Notice to Air Missions’ has been issued for a warning area over the Bay of Bengal, according to the Times of India newspaper.
