India will not baulk at using force in self-defence, says Rajnath Singh

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ India would not baulk at using its strength to defend itself, Defence minister Rajnath Singh asserted on Thursday even as he called for a strong global stand against those supporting, financing and providing sanctuaries to terror groups.

His comments at a defence dialogue in Seoul came in the midst of spiralling tension between India and Pakistan over the Kashmir issue. “India has never been an aggressor in its history nor will it ever be. But that does not mean that India would baulk at using its strength to defend itself,” Singh said, in presence of South Korea’s top military brass.

 India will not baulk at using force in self-defence, says Rajnath Singh at Seoul Defence Last month, Singh indicated that India has the option of changing its decades-old policy of ‘No First Use’ of nuclear weapons depending on the circumstances. The defence minister arrived in Seoul on Wednesday on a three-day visit.