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Khunti: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said Pakistan was “encouraging” terrorism, but India would neither allow its “designs” to succeed nor the country s dignity and self-respect to be compromised on.
Singh, who had come to pay tributes to freedom fighter Birsa Munda at Ulihatu in Khunti district, about 75 km from here, said Pakistan and the rest of the world should know India would never compromise on self-respect and dignity.
“First I decided not to go to (the recently-held) SAARC meeting in Pakistan, but when protests against India and me were witnessed in Pakistan, I told my officials I’ll definitely go and present India’s points strongly,” Singh said. The Home Minister said he had been told that 500-600 demonstrations were being held across Pakistan against his visit and he himself saw a couple of them.
“I told my officials I will go to Pakistan as it is not (about) Rajnath Singh it is (about) the representative of India,” Singh said.
