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Why BRICS worked in India's favour

Devina GuptaOctober 18, 2016 | 17:55 IST

BRICS Summit: PM Modi slams Pakistan, calls it mothership of terror (India Today)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today hit out at Pakistan calling it the mother ship of terrorism. "In our own region, terrorism poses a grave threat to peace, security and development. Tragically, the mother ship of terrorism is a country in India's neighbourhood," Modi said at the BRICS summit here in Goa.

BRICS, Goa 2016. (Photo credit: PTI)

Modi was unsparing in his attack on a state sponsor of terror saying: "Terror modules around the world are linked to this mother-ship. This country shelters not just terrorists, it nurtures a mindset, that loudly proclaims that terrorism is justified for political gains." Modi asked all BRICS member countries to speak in one voice against this threat (terrorism emanating from Pakistan).

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