PM Modi Warns Pakistan, says terrorists will pay heavy cost for Pulwama attack

New Delhi, Feb 15 Warning Pakistan that it can't debilitate India by organizing assaults, for example, the one on CRPF jawans in Pulwama, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said those dependable will pay "a substantial cost" and security powers will be given a free hand to manage terrorists .

In a hard-hitting discourse, Modi said the "blood of the general population is bubbling" and powers behind the demonstration of psychological oppression will be unquestionably be rebuffed.

"Security powers have been given finished opportunity, the blood of the general population is boiling...Our neighbouring nation, which has been separated globally, thinks such terror attacks can destabilize us, however their arrangements won't appear," Modi said at a capacity to signal off the Vande Bharat Express, India's fastest train from Delhi to Varanasi.

On Thursday, an explosives loaded truck smashed into a CRPF escort in Pulwama outside Srinagar, killing 37 officers in one of the biggest terror attacks in recent years.

"My condolences to families of those martyred in Pulwama attack, those behind the terror strike will pay a very heavy price," Modi said.

"I am thankful to all countries which condemned Pulwama assault and urge them to meet up to crush terrorism. The forces behind this demonstration of fear mongering and those in charge of it, will be certainly be punished," he said.

Speaking to his pundits to not politicize the disaster, Modi said the assaults have left the nation emotional.

"I comprehend the conclusions of those censuring us however I encourage them that it is a passionate time, so avoid political one-upmanship," he said.

Prior in the morning, after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said India had pulled back Pakistan's most supported country status and was taking a shot at an arrangement to isolate the country internationally in the wake of the attacks.

"The most favoured country status to Pakistan stands revoked," Jaitley said.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh will visit Srinagar on Friday and would assemble an all-party meeting in all likelihood on Saturday to brief political parties on the incident so the country talks in a single voice on the issue.

The CCCS meet was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to talk about the security scenario in Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of the Pulwama fear assault.