Madhubani (Bihar): India will identify, track and punish every terrorist and their backers and our spirit will never be broken, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this noon, sending a strong message two days after 26 tourists and a Kashmiri were brutally killed in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam.

The Prime Minister was in Bihar’s Madhubani for a Government event. He started his address with a silent tribute to those killed in the Pahalgam terror attack.

Later in his address, he said the entire country is in pain because of the ruthless manner in which terrorists killed innocent tourists in Pahalgam. “The whole country is with the bereaved families. The Government is trying its best to ensure the well-being of those injured. Someone has lost a son, someone has lost a brother, someone has lost a life partner. Someone spoke Bengali, someone spoke Kannada, someone was Marathi, someone was Odia, someone was Gujarati and                      someone was Bihar’s son.

Shifting to English, clearly to send a message across the globe, the Prime Minister said, “I say to the whole world. India will identify, track and punish every terrorist and their backers. We will pursue them to the ends of the earth. India’s spirit will never be broken by terrorism. Terrorism will not go unpunished. Every effort will be made to ensure that justice is done. The entire nation is firm in this resolve. Everyone who believes in humanity is with us. I thank the people of various countries and their leaders who have stood with us in this time,” he said.

“From Kargil to Kanyakumari, there is grief and rage. This attack was not just on innocent tourists; the country’s enemies have shown the audacity to attack India’s soul,” the Prime Minister said.

The Prime Minister said, the terrorists who carried out the attack and those who plotted it would “get a punishment they cannot imagine”. “The time has come to raze whatever is left of the terror haven. The will of 140 crore people of our country will break the back of the masters   of terror,” he said.