Indian force also retaliated, reports said.
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The latest tensions also could be thrust onto a wider stage this week at the U.N. General Assembly in NY.
“The Secretary reiterated the need for Pakistan to prevent all terrorists from using Pakistani territory as safe havens”, the State Department said after Kerry met with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in NY.
Pakistan denies any role in the raid, one of the deadliest in the divided Himalayan region over which India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars.
Slamming the BJP-led NDA government, the Congress leaders said, “We have sent air pumps to the Prime Minister’ Office so that the PM can inflate his chest to 56 inches”. “They were intercepted and the infiltration bid was foiled”, said Indian Army Spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia, referring to the same area where Sunday’s attack took place.
Kerry also stressed the need for restraint in nuclear weapons programs. Pakistan is often accused of firing at Indian posts to give cover to infiltrators.
India’s portion of Kashmir has been under a major security lockdown during more than two months of protests sparked by the July 8 killing of a popular young commander of a Kashmiri militant group.
Pakistan Army chief Gen Raheel Sharif, who chaired a meeting of the army’s Corps Commanders at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, described India’s reaction to the Uri attack as a “hostile narrative”.
Soon after Sunday’s attack, Mr Modi said: “I assure the nation that those behind this despicable attack will not go unpunished”.
“Pakistan has been continuously stabbing India in the back, be it Samba, Kathua, Gurdaspur, Udhampur, Pathankot and now Uri and we are tolerating all this without doing anything”, a protestor Pardeep Gupta said.
No Indian journalist was reportedly allowed to attend the press conference by Pakistan foreign secretary on Monday.
India said it firmly believes that a policy of “zero tolerance” against terrorism is as much an global obligation as it is a commitment to its own people. But they decided against using that option, Malik said.
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His father Rabindranath Gharai, a farmer, managed to control his emotion and said, “My younger son died while protecting the honour of the country”.
