Prime minister Narendra Modi  is in Kerala. He  made a few scathing remarks against Pakistan, but  also remained diplomatic in his first public address after the Uri terror attacks.

He said the Pakistan PM was one who reads out the script conceptualized by terrorists. Modi made his displeasure clear about the way the Nawaz Sharif administration was a passive onlooker while non-state actors were unleashing terror.

Having thousands of people and the Arabian Sea as witnesses, prime minister Narendra Modi said that the sacrifice of 18 jawans of the Indian army would not go in vain and that India would isolate Pakistan in the world.

The PM is in Kozhikode as part of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) national council meet. Here are the main quotes from the PM’s speech.

» The sacrifice of our 18 jawans will not go in vain. We will leave no stone unturned to isolate Pak in the world

» All countries in Asia, except one, are working forward to make sure that 21st century belongs to the continent.

» Wherever terrorism is happening across Asia, the affected nations are blaming only one nation.

» Leaders of our neighboring country used to say that they will fight for 1000 years, but where are they lost now?

» In the last few months, our neighbor tried to destroy our country by exporting terrorists more than 17 times but our army defeated them.

» I want to inform Pakistan that before 1947 even your leaders used to salute this land.

» People of Pakistan, ask your leaders why did they mislead you by talking of Kashmir when they can’t handle Gilgit, PoK and Balochistan.

» We are exporting engineers all over the world, whereas Pakistan is exporting terrorists in entire world.

» I want to tell Pak people, India is ready to fight you. If you have strength, then come forward to fight poverty. Lets see who wins? Let’s see who is able to defeat poverty and illiteracy first, Pakistan or India?

» A day will come when people of Pakistan will go against its own government to fight terrorism

» Terrorism is the enemy of humanity. We need to join our hands to defeat terrorism.

The implication was that the real power vests with the Inter-Services Intelligence and the army, as far as exporting terror was concerned. And by openly communicating with the people of Pakistan, whom, he said, were being fooled by the administration in the name of Kashmir, Modi needled the Sharif dispensation.

Though he did not mince words on retaliation for the Uri attacks, by urging to compete in terms of development and poverty alleviation, he was expressed sympathy for the ordinary Pakistani people. He blamed the misadventures on a weak government and the army alone for feeding terror hubs.

Reading between the lines, mounting diplomatic pressure to isolate Pakistan seems to be the line of thinking in New Delhi, but hot pursuit of perpetrators of cross-border terror cannot be ruled out.

By this speech laced with emotional outburst first and the rhetoric of humane diplomacy later, Modi seemed to be appealing to the international community to help him rein in the rogue nation across the border.

[paraphrased from media sources]

  Indo-Pakistan, Prime Minister Modi