She said that for the past 73 days, at least 90 innocent youth were killed mercilessly in Kashmir while thousands of others were critically injured.
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The Army chief and the Defence Minister r had immediately flown to Srinagar following the Uri attack to take stock of the situation.
All the four attackers were also killed in gun battle. The story further said that the military brigade headquarter was chosen deliberately because of its Sikh-dominated population which would help in antagonizing the Sikh community from supporting the Kashmir struggle.
Four militants, reportedly belonging to the Pakistani-based Islamist group Jaish-e-Mohammed, sneaked into the Indian military unit in Kashmir’s Uri region on Sunday (18 September) sparking a major attack, said to be the worst in the valley in the past 17 years.
Targetting Prime Minister, Surjewala said: “Modiji counsels UPA (United Progressive Alliance) to not write “love letters to Pakistan”.
Expectations of appropriate action were raised when Modi himself said soon after the attack: “I assure the nation that those behind this despicable attack will not go unpunished”.
In August, when suicide bombers killed 70 people in Quetta, a remote Pakistani city in Baluchistan Province near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials charged that India’s intelligence agency was behind the attack, although it was claimed by two different Islamist militant groups operating in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Rejecting “baseless allegations” from India, the newspaper quoted Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations saying that “no infiltration is allowed from Pakistani soil because water-tight arrangements were on both sides of the LOC Working boundary all along”.
The valley has been restive since the July 8 killing of militant commander Burhan Wani, with the nearly unending protests resulting in close to 90 deaths, including that of three policemen, and over 11,000 injuries.
Asif also took to Twitter to criticise the Indian government’s response to the Uri attack. Two of their three wars since independence from Britain have been fought over the region. But New Delhi believes the crackdown is necessary as the secessionist movement in Kashmir is not indigenous and receives backing from Islamabad.
India has long blamed Pakistan for a role in the 27-year long insurgency against its rule in its only Muslim-majority state. The jihadist infrastructure continues to operate from Pakistani soil.
Akbar said the incident in Uri is a grave incident and not only India but the world is aggrieved by it, adding that Pakistan should understand that it will be given a befitting reply and no one will back Pakistan on this.
On Sunday, the suicide squad attacked the administrative block where unarmed soldiers were refilling diesel in barrels from fuel tanks.
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On Sunday Home Minister Rajnath Singh accused Pakistan of “continued and direct support to terrorism and terrorist groups” and called for it to be internationally isolated.
