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<p style="text-align:justify">NEW DELHI: The Congress today hit
out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his "cavalier" conduct of
foreign policy at the Commonwealth Summit and bilateral meeting with
British counterpart Theresa May, saying it is "hurting" India's national
interests.</p>
<p>Congress senior spokesperson Anand Sharma said the Prime Minister's
"boastful" claims on surgical strike neutralising cross-border terror is
"embarrassing" as India continues to be exposed to multiple terrorist
strikes from across the border, losing brace officers and soldiers.</p>
<p>"Prime Minister Modi's cavalier conduct of foreign policy at the
Commonwealth Summit in London and the bilateral meeting with the British
prime minister is hurting India's national interests.</p><ul class="gmail-RelatedArticle">
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<p>"He needs a firm reminder that India engages with its strategic
partner countries with maturity and gravitas and does not take sides or
make an uninformed statement on issues of disputes between two strategic
partner countries," he said in a statement.</p>
<p>Hitting out at the government's policy towards Pakistan, Sharma said
it has been a "disaster" and it was "unbecoming" of a Prime Minister to
speak out the way he did.</p>
<p>"The BJP government's Pakistan policy is a disaster. It is both
unfortunate and unbecoming of him to say that India's Prime Minister
speaks to Pakistan in its own language," he said.</p>
<p>Sharma said Pakistan is home to a terrorist syndicate that targets India and its people.</p>
<p>India, therefore, has the moral high ground and every right to take
firm action to confront and defeat terrorism, he said, adding that the
entire nation stands united behind the armed forces in fighting
terrorism.</p>
<p>Modi told his British counterpart yesterday that there would be no
dilution in the importance of the UK to India after it leaves the EU, as
the two leaders agreed to infuse new energy into bilateral ties
post-Brexit.</p>
<p>Later at an interaction with the Indian diaspora, the Prime Minister
talked about surgical strikes on Pakistan to demolish terror training
camps and warned Pakistan that India will not tolerate those who like to
export terror and will respond to them "in the language they
understand".</p>
<p>The Prime Minister, during the 'Bharat Ki Baat, Sabke Saath'
programme at the iconic Central Hall Westminster, said when "someone has
put a terror export factory in place and makes attempts to attack us
from the back, Modi knows how to answer in the same language".</p>
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