LUCKNOW, June 16 -- India retaliated with surgical strike, air strike and razed the headquarters of terrorists to the ground whenever Pakistan tried to attack or carry out terror activities in the country during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government in the past 11 years, Union home minister Amit Shah said in Lucknow on Sunday.

Addressing a public gathering, Shah said the prime minister has sent a strong message to Pakistan that India's blood is not meant to be shed, and whoever does dare (to do so) will be punished for it.

He mentioned Operation Sindoor which targeted and destroyed terror bases in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir in May after the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22.

Shah was in the Uttar Pradesh capital to att...