India has capability of taking care of its territorial integrity: MEA

India has the capability of taking care of its territorial integrity and sovereignty and there is no need to take seriously the threats on Kashmir by al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, the External Affairs Ministry said Thursday.

In a video, Zawahiri, who took over the reins of al Qaedaafter the death of Osama bin Laden, said, “I am of the view that theMujahideen in Kashmir — at this stage at least — should focus with singlemind on inflicting unrelenting blows on the Indian Army and government so as tobleed the Indian economy and make India suffer sustained losses in manpower andequipment.”

   

Reacting to it, MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said India’ssecurity forces are capable and equipped to protect the country’s territorialintegrity and sovereignty.

“We keep hearing of such threats and it is not thefirst time that we received such a threat. I don’t think we need to take itseriously,” Kumar said in response to a question.

“Al Qaeda is a UN-prescribed terror organisation andtheir leader is UN-designated terrorist. Our security forces are capable andequipped…Not to worry about these threats. They have the capability of takingcare of our territorial integrity and sovereignty,” he said.

The video was posted on ‘As-Sahab’ channel, an in-houseproduction of al Qaeda used to relay the organisation’s views to the world,also asked the terrorists “to establish stronger channels of communicationwith their Muslim brethren all over the world”.Zawahiri hails from Egypt and the US has announceda reward of USD 25 million for information leading to his arrest or death.

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