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”.
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Verbal finesse could barely couch the dressing down that Sharif, regarded as a stooge of Pakistan’s ruling military junta, got from US Secretary of State John Kerry+, long seen as sympathetic to Islamabad.
“There has been a ceasefire violation in Uri sector – small arms”, a Defence spokesman said in Srinagar. The militants were also killed in the attack.
The NIA will send the Global Positioning System and icon satellite set recovered from the terrorists to the United States for forensic investigation to find out what route the terrorists chose and when and how they entered Indian territory.
Kalia said soldiers were exchanging fierce gunfire with the two groups of militants in Uri region and Nowgam sector.
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A soldier died and two others have been injured in an encounter with terrorists trying to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir’s Naugam on Tuesday evening.
According to the Indian Army, infiltration attempts from across the border with Pakistan have increased this year in comparison with the past three to four years.
Fighting broke out in two different locations along the Line of Control, the disputed de facto border with Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Pakistan rejected on Monday India’s assertion that it was involved in the terror attack in Uri that killed 18 soldiers, with the country’s leadership accusing New Delhi of leveling the accusation to divert attention from the situation in Kashmir.
The same outfit was implicated in an audacious assault on an Indian air force base in Pathankot in the northern state of Punjab in January. Modi promised during his election campaign to take a hard line over Kashmir and has faced calls from army veterans-and even some in his own party-for military action against Pakistan.
In his meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May, Sharif again raised the Kashmir issue and asked the British leader to play her role in convincing India to stop the alleged use of force against the people in the region.
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”.
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The cease-fire has largely stabilized the highly militarized boundary between the nuclear-armed rivals.
