India, July 28 -- External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Monday invoked the strikes on terror camps in Pakistan to underline the Modi government's resolve in responding to cross-border terrorism.

"It was a commitment made by the Prime Minister, to the people of India, that we would hit those symbols, those sites, those planning places," Jaishankar said in the Lok Sabha.

Jaishankar questioned the Opposition parties, asking if any of them had ever imagined that terror hubs like Bahawalpur and Muridke could be hit the way they were.

"So today, when I hear many questions from across the A, I want to say, which one of you would imagine that Bahawalpur and Muridke would be brought down the way it was. Which one of you thought?" he asked....