TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ China and Pakistan will not let India utilise its resources until the country takes steps to secure borders effectively, Minister of State for Home Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said on Thursday. “India is not getting cooperation from Pakistan in border areas. Instead, the neighbouring country is creating trouble. We have to introduce modern technologies in securing our borders which are geographically diverse in nature,” he said.
“Mineral reserves in border areas must be utilised which we are unable to do due to the insecure borders. If we succeed in making use of these minerals and natural resources, I do not think our country will remain poor,” Ahir said at a seminar on ‘Border Management and Illicit Trade’ organised by FICCI.
“India has shown its might. World has seen what is the difference between those talking too much and those talking less on the intervening night of September 28 and 29,” he told reporters when asked about his reaction on the rhetoric from Pakistan in the wake of surgical strike.
India has always tried to improve its ties with neighbouring countries as some tasks cannot be carried out through arms but through dialogue. But, Pakistan has created a lot of problem by indulging in drug-trafficking, Ahir said.
