Amidst PM's fierce speech against Pak Terror, Sharif says that India- Pak talks are due in Saudi Arabia

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- BY SUSHIL KUTTY

Nobody can beat the Prime Minister in breathing fire at adversaries. Especially, when his ire is directed at terror supporting Pakistan. The Pakistanis, they can be irritating, damn! But Pakistani newspapers would have spent much of May 22 reworking their scripts after Prime Minister Modi went all out against the Pak Army and the Pakistan government, Pakistanis in general.

PM Modi was in Bikaner Thursday, not far from the International Border and not too far from the Rahim Yar Khan air-base in Pakistan, which Modi said “is in the ICU” following India’s airstrikes at Pakistan's airbases. At one point in his fiery address, Modi spoke of ‘Sindoor turns into barood’, clearly not in a mood to give quarter to Pakistan.

India’s “swift response brought Pakistan to its knees,” Modi said. Absolutely, but who will convince Pakistan, which continues to assert that Pakistan won the “War” and Pakistan won fair and square.

Pakistan is immune to India’s precision strikes. Pakistan has refused to accept Modi’s “new normal” set for Pakistan: One more terror attack and it will be an all-out war, forget the diplomatic nuances!