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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India has directly blamed Pakistan for the Uri terror attack and has chose to isolate the country at global forums.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, in an official statement quoting Foreign Press Secretary Yasuhisa Kawamura, said, “The Government of Japan strongly condemns the terrorist attack on the Indian Base in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir, and extends its honest condolences to those who lost their lives and their bereaved families, and expresses its heartfelt sympathy to those who were injured”.
Earlier the National Security Council of Afghanistan called for the isolation of the perpetrators and those orchestrated the attack.
About 15 terrorists had attempted to cross the Line of Control, the sources said.
Eighteen soldiers were killed and dozens others injured in the attack on the base. Afghan News Agency on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook.
One Indian soldier was killed in the fighting. The NIA took over the investigation from the Jammu and Kashmir Police, which had registered a case on Sunday, and began probe by collecting evidence available with the Army formation at Uri.
Toner told reporters at the briefing at the New York Foreign Press Centre that US-Pakistan is “obviously a very important relationship”.
“PM Nawaz Sharif also apprised his Japanese counterpart of the human rights violations being committed by Indian occupation forces in Kashmir”, Lodhi said in another tweet. The officers, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk on the record, said no Pakistani troops had fired at any Indian military position in Kashmir.
Heavily armed terrorists had stormed the Army camp in Kashmir’s Uri sector in the wee hours of September 18, killing 18 jawans and injuring 19 other personnel in the terror strike in which four militants were neutralised.
Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang said we stands by Pakistan and will continue to raise our voice in Pakistan’s support at every forum.
United Nations can only impose sanctions on individual entities and not on countries.
On Monday, Raheel Sharif had met his top commanders and said the military was “watchful” towards the security imperatives of the country in the wake of “hostile narrative” by India.
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The OIC General Secretary General Iyad Madani who participated in a OIC Contact Group meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, in NY, urged the government of India for peaceful settlement of the dispute.
