India / If Taliban moves towards India, airstrike is ready: UP CM Yogi

Lucknow: In a tough warning to the Taliban, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said that if the insurgent group dares to move towards India, "an air strike is ready".

Addressing the Samajik Pratinidhi Sammelan in Lucknow, Adityanath said that Pakistan and Afghanistan are "feeling disturbed" by the Taliban.

The Chief Minister asserted that no country can dare to raise its eyes towards India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

"Today, under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi, the country is powerful, and no country can dare to raise its eyes towards India. Today, Pakistan and Afghanistan are feeling disturbed because of the Taliban. But, the Taliban knows if it moves towards India, an air strike is ready," he said.

The Taliban had seized power in Afghanistan in August this year two weeks before the US completed its troop withdrawal from the two-decade-old war theatre.

Last month, the Chief Minister had said that supporting the Taliban means backing anti-India, anti-humanity, anti-women and anti-children acts.

Slamming sympathisers of the extremist group, Adityanath said that there are some elements who do not like India's development.

"Supporting the Taliban means supporting anti-India, anti-humanity, anti-women and anti-children acts. You would be knowing the kind of atrocities and acts that are being committed today and there are some shameless people who keep supporting the group. This cannot be accepted. We have to be cautious of such people who support the wrong acts of Taliban," he said, PTI reported.