Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the Congress-led UPA government on Wednesday for failing to punish Pakistan after the 26/11 attacks in 2008 due to “foreign pressure”.

Speaking at the inauguration of the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) at Ulwe in the Raigad district of Maharashtra, Modi said, “The Congress should tell people why it stopped the army from attacking Pakistan after the 2008 Mumbai terror attack. A senior Congress leader, who was the then Union home minister, recently said in an interview that after 26/11, our armed forces were ready to strike, and the country wanted that. If he is to be believed, the attack didn’t happen because of pressure from one country. The Congress government stopped the armed forces from striking Pakistan.”

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