PM: No double standards in fight on terror

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asserted that there is no room for double standards in the fight against terrorism and, ina reference to the activities of Khalistani elements in the UK, that extremist forces cannot be allowed to misuse democratic freedoms.

- Rezaul H Laskar

India’s drive against terrorism, the activities of pro-Kha-listan elements and the return of economic offenders and fugitives wanted by New Delhi figured in the talks between Modi and his British counterpart Keir Starmer, foreign secretary Vikram Misri said.

Following one-on-one and delegation-level talks with Starmer at Chequers, the British prime minister's country residence 50 km northwest of London, Modi thanked the UK for its strong condemnation of the Pahalgam terror attack.

“We are unanimous that double standards have no place in the fight against terrorism. ‘We also agree that forces with extremist ideology cannot be allowed to misuse democratic freedoms,” Modi said at a joint media interaction, speaking in Hindi.