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00:00You see, the fact is that, to my mind, we had reached a stage where the escalation was needlessly getting out of control.
00:08Peace is necessary for us.
00:10The truth is that the circumstances of 1971 are not the circumstances of 2025.
00:16There are differences.
00:17As far as I'm concerned, I believe that the people of India deserve peace.
00:22We have suffered a lot.
00:23We have lost a lot of casualties.
00:25Please ask the people of Punch how many have died since this war began and the shelling from the Pakistanis.
00:31I'm not saying that we should always stop wars.
00:36When there are reasons to continue them, we should continue.
00:39But this was not a war we intended to continue.
00:42We just wanted to teach the terrorists a lesson.
00:45That lesson has been taught.
00:46I'm sure the government will continue trying to identify and track the specific individuals who did the horrors of Pahal Gham.
00:53But as far as this particular conflict with Pakistan was concerned, there was no reason to risk the loss of more lives and limbs and fortunes.
01:03We need to focus on the well-being and prosperity of Indian people, of growth, development, progress.
01:09I think the peace is the right way to go at this stage.
01:11Our position on terrorism will not change.
01:14Other measures have to be taken.
01:15I think we have to definitely use all the intelligence means available to find these people who did this terrible crime in Pahal Gham, to identify them, track them down wherever they are and bring them to justice.
01:27That is indispensable.
01:29It may not happen overnight.
01:30It may take months.
01:31It may take years.
01:32But we will have to do it.
01:34No one should be allowed to get away with killing innocent Indian civilians.
01:37But that doesn't mean we should put the entire nation at risk in a prolonged war.
01:42So I'm in favor of peace, but I do not in any way suggest that we should stop the quest to find these terrorists and bring them to justice.
01:51Look, I think 1971 was a great achievement of our history.
01:55I'm proud of it as an Indian.
01:57Indira Gandhiji rewrote the map of the subcontinent.
01:59But the circumstances were different.
02:02Today's Pakistan is a different situation.
02:04Their equipment, their military equipment, the damage they can do, everything is different.
02:09And the circumstances of Bangladesh were fighting a moral cause to actually bring people to freedom and liberation.
02:17That was a completely different story.
02:20This is a different story.
02:22We would have ended up with a much longer protracted conflict with a lot of loss of life on both sides, a lot of damage, a lot of expense.
02:30Is this the biggest priority for India today?
02:32No, it's not.
02:33We wanted to teach those who had sent these terrorists across that there is a price to be paid.
02:38We still have to catch the individual terrorist perpetrators, but we do not need to tie the whole country down in a war.
02:46That is something I've been very clear about from the start.
02:50India did not, I believe, at any stage see the action of the seventh as the beginning or the opening salvo of a long protracted conflict.
03:00For us, it was one-off.
03:02We'll do it.
03:03If Pakistan did not escalate, we would not have escalated.
03:05Pakistan did, we also did.
03:07It was getting to a point where if it continued like this, we would needlessly have been caught into a long-grown-out war without a clear objective at the end of it.
03:16Liberating Bangladesh is a clear objective.
03:19Just keeping on firing shells at Pakistan is not a clear objective.
03:22You see the difference?