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Rajnath Singh to visit Bhuj airbase in Gujarat a day after slamming Pakistan over nukes

by Trans World Features | @twfindia 16 May 2025, 02:35 am

New Delhi : Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will on Friday visit the Bhuj airbase in Gujarat, a day after giving a strong message to Pakistan over nuclear threats and Operation Sindoor.

Singh wrote on X, "Leaving New Delhi for Bhuj (Gujarat). Looking forward to interact with our courageous Air Warriors at Bhuj Air Force Station. Also, I shall be visiting Smritivan - a memorial and museum envisioned by PM Shri @narendramodi as a tribute to those who lost their lives in the 2001 earthquake."

Gujarat, which shares a border with Jammu and Kashmir, was one of the states which were targeted by Pakistan during the four-day military conflict between the two hostile neighbours.

Though Pakistani drones were hurled at Bhuj, the Indian Army Forces successfully thwarted all of them.

Singh's visit to Bhuj comes a day after the Defence Minister interacted with the soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar.

UPDATE: RAJNATH SINGH ARRIVES IN BHUJ

'Are nukes safe with irresponsible and rogue nation like Pakistan?': Rajnath Singh to world

Singh on Thursday sought a global monitoring of Pakistan's nuclear weapons questioning how safe the nukes are with the "irresponsible" and "rogue" nation.

Singh visited Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday for the first time since the Indian Armed Forces conducted Operation Sindoor to bust the terrorists camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Pakistan to avenge the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 tourists.

In the course of his address to the armed forces, the Defence Minister said, "We snubbed Pakistan's nuclear blackmail and this makes India's firm stand against terrorism evident. The entire world has seen how Pakistan irresponsibly made atomic threats to India.

"From the land of Srinagar, I ask the entire world whether nukes are safe with an irresponsible and rogue nation like Pakistan? Pakistan's atomic weapons should come under international monitoring."

Singh reviewed the overall security and the operation readiness of the Armed Forces.

He also inspected the Pakistani shells which were dropped on the border last week.

On Operation Sindoor, Singh said, " Operation Sindoor is the biggest action taken by India against terrorism in history. For the last thirty-five to forty years, India has been facing terrorism being carried out from across the border. Today India has made it clear to the whole world that we can go to any extent against terrorism."

"By carrying out the terrorist incident in Pahalgam, an attempt was made to hurt India's forehead, an attempt was made to break India's social unity. They attacked India's forehead, we have inflicted wounds on their chest. The only way to cure Pakistan's wounds is to stop giving shelter to anti-India and terrorist organizations, and not allow its land to be used against India."