Key BJP ally Shiv Sena while needling Modi on the Uri attack said if he does not have the “courage to strike Pakistan” like the United States did to eliminate Osama Bin Laden, there is no use of building an worldwide image.
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He said the operation at the camp has been called off after on Monday evening. Lieutenant General Balbir Singh said on Monday “we have the capacity to react to such blatant acts of aggression and violence”.
“We reserved the right to respond at a place and time of our choosing”.
A similar attack on an Indian military installation occurred in January, when six gunmen entered an air force base in the town of Pathankot close to the Pakistan border.
The inquiry besides ascertaining lapses, if any, would also suggest measures to prevent such attacks in the future as Pakistani-based groups were indulging more in “shallow infiltration”, which means that terrorists strike the first available installation after crossing the Line of Control. India is also planning to hand over to Pakistan evidence of the four terrorists using Pakistani-marked weapons, food, energy drinks and Global Positioning System trackers which they carried to enter Jammu and Kashmir from across the Line of Control.
Home minister Rajnath Singh has pointed fingers at Pakistan, calling it a “terrorist state” and condemning its “continuing and direct support to terrorism and terrorists”.
A National Investigation Agency team visited Uri. However, the common opinion shared in the meeting was not to take any aggressive action based on the sentiments prevailing across the nation without considering the short and long term implications.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already spoken and our President has also commented”. Possible strategies to deal with the fresh challenges arising out of the terror attack at the Army Brigade Headquarters, located along the LoC, was also discussed in the meeting, the sources said. “Everything is in front of the people”. “We know Pakistan is behind this”, he said. “It has to be taken coolly and with proper planning”, Singh said.
The Army operations have been called off after conducting a detailed search of the area in and around the military complex at Uri.
Curtis said the USA had forcefully condemned the attack but should go a step further to defuse tensions by calling on Pakistan to rein in terrorist groups operating freely on its soil.
During the bitter 2014 election campaign that brought him to office, Modi often taunted the Congress by saying that if he became prime minister Pakistan would not dare to provoke India.
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The former army chief slammed Pakistan for raking up Kashmir at the UNGA and said Nawaz Sharif is under compulsion to do so.
