Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on wednesday, just hours after India conducted its biggest anti-terror strike in Pakistan, highlighting India’s aspiration for “collective progress”, and exposing the gulf that lies between the two neighbours. Here, the PM’s skipping the issue conveyed what a thousand word’s wouldn’t have.
PM Modi must have been in the war room as Indian forces carried out strikes deep inside Pakistani territory, and still receiving minute-by-minute updates on the impact and global reactions. But as he addressed the space-tech meeting, he was calm and poise personified, talking science and about India’s ambitions.
There was absolutely no hint of India’s big military move just hours earlier and the confrontation that it had been threatened with by Pakistan.
It also showed that India was more than capable of dealing with disturbances in the backyard while aiming for the stars.
Modi said India’s space journey is about “reaching higher together” rather than competing with others, even as he highlighted the several milestones India had reached on the final frontier.
He was addressing the Global Conference on Space Exploration (GLEX) 2025 via videoconferencing.
Just hours earlier, India targeted terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) in its biggest-ever, anti-terror strike — Operation Sindoor.
PM @narendramodi‘s message for the Global Conference on Space Exploration
Space is not just a destination. It is a declaration of curiosity, courage and collective progress. Indian space journey reflects this spirit. From launching a small rocket in 1963 to becoming the first… pic.twitter.com/WEe0pBNLEH
— DD News (@DDNewslive) May 7, 2025
Wednesday’s strike was in retaliation of Pakistani and Pakistan-trained terrorists killing 26 people in Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22. This was the biggest civilian casualty in a terror attack since the 26/11 Mumbai attacks of 2008. Other than the toll, what made the Pahalgam attack particularly barbaric was that tourists were shot from point-blank range in front of their family members.
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