Hubli (Karnataka): Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on February 14 asserted that no nation could ignore India or put pressure on it and the country would protect its interests.

"We are capable of facing any pressure", Vajpayee said in his speech at a public meeting after laying the foundation stone for South Western Railway Zonal Headquarters office in Hubli.

Without Naming Pakistan, Vajpayee also said, "Our one neighbour keeps on creating problems" but they were themselves trapped in problems.

"We want to have friendly relations. Neither we nor they will go anywhere. We have to live together. But this is not acceptable to it," he said.

The neighbouring country keeps on raising the Kashmir issue at the international fora but the world had started realising that the people of Jammu and Kashmir had themselves voluntarily decided to join India and that this could not be changed, Vajpayee said.

Referring to the polls in Jammu and Kashmir, he said, "Who had thought there could be elections in Jammu and Kashmir. People said there cannot be elections in Jammu and Kashmir."

PTI