In an all-party meeting convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday to discuss the response to the deadly Uri attack, it was decided that Pakistan will be isolated diplomatically at every global grouping.
Advertisement
Army Chief Dalbir Singh Suhag and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar are to visit Kashmir after the attack, the Indian media said.
The Congress leader’s remarks comes in the wake of Sunday’s terror attack which was one of the biggest targeting the Indian Army in recent years that resulted in the death of 17 soldiers and caused substantial damage to military property just a few kilometres from the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
Sunday’s attack was one of worst strikes on an army base in Kashmir since militant attacks began in 1989.
The US on Monday strongly condemned the dastardly terror attack in Uri in which 17 soldiers were killed even as the State Department asserted it was “committed to our strong partnership” with India to combat terrorism.
Asked how China sees the impact of the escalation of violence on its Dollars 46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, Lu said, “The building of the corridor is to drive the development of the regional countries. We should not pay any attention to what Pakistan says”.
“The world community should come together to isolate Pakistan, declare it a terrorist state and stop giving it military and all other assistance”. “Pakistan investigates and does not give knee jerk reactions whenever any such incident takes place”.
Responding to Pakistan’s rejection of New Delhi’s allegations, India’s junior minister for home affairs Kiren Rijju was cited as saying: “Whether Pakistan accepts or denies doesn’t really matter”.
Indian security experts said the timing and planning of the attack suggested complicity or at least support from elements of the Pakistani security establishment, including the Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, the military spy agency. He said Pakistan should understand that it will receive a befitting reply. Some analysts said New Delhi was wary of launching an aggressive operation with world leaders gathering for the United Nations meeting and civilians still protesting in the Kashmir valley. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, the Union Home Secretary, top Army, paramilitary and Home Ministry officials are attending it.
Soon after India said on Sunday that Pakistan had a hand in the attack, Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria dismissed the accusation. It further added “brazen militant attack near the LoC had triggered a “verbal spat” between New Delhi and Islamabad escalating the tension between the two “bitter and nuclear-armed” neighbors”.
Advertisement
Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died in the fighting since India occupied the disputed valley.
