India blamed Pakistan for Sunday’s assault on army brigade headquarters in Uri in which four commando-style gunmen killed 18 Indian soldiers, sharply raising tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
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Washington said it will continue to ask Pakistan to do more to restrain terror groups seeking refuge within its borders, NDTV reported.
Soldiers at the LoC became apprehensive about a possible infiltration bid afresh after Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing at forward Indian posts on Tuesday afternoon.
The latest tensions also could be thrust onto a wider stage this week at the U.N. General Assembly in NY.
The protesters also set on fire an effigy of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to punish those responsible for Sunday’s attack.
One problem for Modi’s government is that, by promising an appropriate response to the attack and raising expectations of a punitive strike, officials in his administration could now lose face with its core nationalist constituency. But it is also alarmed by growing USA ties with India under Modi, a lifelong pro-Hindu activist, and about India’s deepening relationship with Afghanistan, whose US -backed government has also accused Pakistan of harboring violent militant groups. The Pew Research Center released results of a public opinion survey Monday that found that 62 percent of Indians surveyed said that “overwhelming force” is the best way to defeat terrorism.
The operation near the Lachipora border area of the garrison town was on and by late Tuesday night, the army said, it had killed 10 militants.
Bhamre, who described the September 18 attack as a “cowardly act”, noted that the government has already initiated moves to convince the worldwide community to “isolate” Islamabad diplomatically on the issue of terrorism, adding the “message to Islamabad should go from the global community”.
Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria reiterated that no shot had been fired by Pakistan, after Indian television channels said troops of both countries had exchanged fire. But any good will generated by that visit evaporated days later when militants attacked a different Indian military installation, killing seven soldiers and stalling relations yet again.
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Officials in the know of things said this agreement would have given India access to real-time information from Russian Federation on terror and cyber security. “A strategic call was then taken in the government that the bigwigs of the NDA government would convey to other countries about the terror factories being run by Pakistan”, said a senior Home Ministry official.
