Modi hits out at Pakistan's proxy war, to take up 26/11 issue with Nawaz Sharif

Srinagar/Leh: In his first direct attack on Pakistan after coming to power in late May, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that Pakistan had lost the strength to fight an open war with India and was therefore waging a “proxy war” of terrorism against it. “The neighbouring country has lost the strength to fight a conventional war, but continues to engage in a proxy war of terrorism,” he said.

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Mr Modi, on a day-long visit to Ladakh to inaugurate two hydro-power projects and lay the foundation stone for the 349-km Leh-Srinagar transmission line, said addressing officers, soldiers and air warriors of the Army and Air Force at Leh that the (Indian) armed forces had suffered more causalities from terrorism than in war.

In a time when terrorism causes more casualties than even war, the need of the hour is for all humanitarian forces to unite & fight terror.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 12, 2014