Amarinder hits out at Pak, its Army chief at Kartarpur corridor event

Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh Monday hit out at Pakistan and its army chief for promotingterror activities in the state and killing of Indian soldiers, warning the Imran Khan led dispensation ofserious consequences if it did not put an end to the violence perpetrated against India.

While thanking Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for reciprocating India's move on developing the Kartarpur corridor, Singh, a former army officer, asked Khan to rein in his army and bring an immediate end to terror against Indian armed forces and citizens.

Reiterating his stand of not going to Pakistan for ground breaking ceremony of the corridor there on November 28, Amarinder Singh said how could he go there when innocent Indian citizens and soldiers were being killed everyday.

Where I thank Prime Minister of Pakistan (for Kartarpur Corridor), I want to say something to his Chief of army staff (Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa). I have been in the army and he (Pakistan army chief) General Bajwa is very junior to me in the service.

When we (Capt) were in the army, the country's security was always foremost for us.

"But who teaches in the army that you kill our soldiers at the border? You use sniper to kill our Jawans. Have you ever been told that you killed people in Pathankot, Dinanagar (referring to terror attacks at Pathankot airforce base in 2016 and Dinanagar in Gurdaspur in 2015), Amarinder said.

He was addressing a gathering during the laying of the foundation stone for the Kartarpur Sahib corridor here.

The function took place at village Mann which lies near the Indo-Pak border with Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and the Chief Minister laying the foundation stone.

Amarinder Singh further lashed out at the Pakistan army chief while referring to the recent Amritsar grenade attack on Nirankari Bhavan in which three people were killed and over 20 people were injured.

In Amritsar village, people were offering prayers in the morning and you get a grenade thrown at them. Is it what is taught by the army? It is cowardice," the Chief Minister said.

He said "by firing bullets at innocent people and killing them with grenade what they get out of itthey should be ashamed of themselves."