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Monday, May 4, 1998
Delhi should not succumb to West, says BJP chief
Our Bureau
GANDHINAGAR, May 3: True to his image of being a softspoken hardliner, BJP president Kushabhau Thakre on Sunday called for the need to be firm with Pakistan. "It would be in fitness of things not to succumb to Western pressures on the manufacture and deployment of Agni and Prithvi missiles," he said.Addressing the party's two-day national council convention, he said that by test-firing Ghauri missiles with a range of 1,500 km and a payload of 700 kg, Pakistan has openly announced that it has capacity to strike at Indian targets with nuclear warheads. He said, "the test-firing sent a political message too from Islamabad to Delhi, rooted in history. Shahabuddin Muhammad Ghauri was the first Islamic invader to attack Delhi in 1191. Prithviraj Chauhan defeated him but spared his life. Ghauri returned a year later to defeat Prithviraj through treachery. Let us not be tricked by today's Ghauri, he said." Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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