NEW DELHI: India will go deep into Pakistan to hit terrorists if they provoke the Indian govt with terror attacks, foreign minister S Jaishankar said while stressing that India will not live with terrorism anymore. In an interview in Brussels, he said Pakistan had trained thousands of terrorists and was ready to unleash them on India.Asked about China’s support to Pakistan, the minister warned against double standards on the issue of terrorism. “They have had close ties for decades. But on an issue like terrorism, you cannot afford ambiguity or double standards. In the end, it’s a problem that concerns all of us,” said the minister.The message to the terrorists, he said, is that there is going to be retribution, and that retribution will be against the terrorist organisations and the terrorist leadership.“We don’t care where they are. If they are deep in Pakistan, we will go deep into Pakistan,” he said, adding that India’s fighter aircraft and missiles had inflicted far more damage on the Pakistani Air Force than vice versa, forcing Pakistan to sue for peace in the conflict that followed India’s Operation Sindoor against the terrorists.“As far I’m concerned, how effective the Rafale was or frankly, how effective other systems were – to me the proof of the pudding are the destroyed and disabled airfields on the Pakistani side,” he said. “The fighting stopped on the 10th for one reason and one reason only, which was that on the 10th morning, we hit these eight Pakistani, the main eight Pakistani airfields and disabled them,” he said, adding that images are available in Google showing runways and those hangars which have taken the hit.The minister also said that the issue in Kashmir is about terrorism. “It has become an India-Pakistan issue because Pakistan harbours and supports terrorists. The conflict is between India and terrorism, not with a specific country…if terrorists attack India, we will hunt them down wherever they are, including in Pakistan,” he said.
