Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 26 (ANI): Amid the rising cross border tensions between India and neighbouring countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh, Union Minister Giriraj Singh said on Saturday that while the country's policy is 'live and let live,' one has to 'reap the fruits of their deeds too.'

'Our policy is 'Live and let live'. The majority community in India has never done anything to the people of the minority community. In Bangladesh, it has become difficult for Hindus to stay alive. Temples were torched, they have done such a big injustice,' Singh told reporters in Kolkata.

'But one has to reap the fruits of their deeds. Bangladesh will also have to bear the results of what they did to Hindus,' the Union Minister added.

Earlier on April 25, in a video clip that has now gone viral, Pakistan's defence minister was in conversation with Sky News's Yalda Hakim, when she asks him, ' But you do admit, you do admit, sir, that Pakistan has had a long history of backing and supporting and training and funding these terrorist organisations?'

Khwaja replied, 'We have been doing this dirty work for the United States for about 3 decades... and the west, including Britain...That was a mistake, and we suffered for that, and that is why you are saying this to me. If we had not joined the war against the Soviet Union and later on the war after 9/11, Pakistan's track record was unimpeachable.'

The Pakistani Defence Minister also warned of the possibility of an 'all-out war' with India.

The comments were in relation the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, where atleast 26 people were killed and multiple others were injured.

Since then India has taken strong diplomatic steps including suspending the SVES visas of Pakistani nationals, reducing the strength of High Commissions on each side and holding the Indus Water Treaty in abeyance.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi also assured the country that the terrorists responsible for this attack, along with those who conspired it, will face punishment beyond their imagination, The Prime Minister asserted that the time has come to eliminate the remaining strongholds of terrorism and that the willpower of 140 crore Indians will now break the backbone of the perpetrators of terror. (ANI)