From the archive record
This is archival news footage with George Fernandes speaking. The activities of the Hizbul Mujahideen in Kashmir Valley after revoking the ceasefire with the Indian government. These activities led to the loss of civilian lives in Srinagar. Then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee called it a 'Carnage executed at the behest of Pakistan'. Former Defence Minister George Fernandes in an interview replies: " You can't possibly say that you ill use the gun and when the man at the other end also replies you with a gun, you will say Oh he's shooting at me? I said, you also you stop shooting, they won't shoot at you and that's what we are trying to do. So today also the rule is the same. If you, on the borders, inside our territories or wherever if you are going to use the gun then a gun will be m