Is Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif likely to unveil at the United Nations steps to de-escalate the tension with India and launch a dialogue on Kashmir, a media report suggested on Wednesday.
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The sources said a group of 15 terrorists had attempted to infiltrate into Indian territory through the LoC.
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.
Colonel Rajesh Kalia said there had been a “ceasefire violation” near Uri, where Sunday’s attack took place, but gave no further details.
The source said the Pakistani fire from small and automatic arms targeting Indian posts in Lachhipora and Boniyar villages of the border area caused no damage to Indian posts. He, however, said one soldier was killed in the operation in Nowgam sector. “They were intercepted and the infiltration bid was foiled”, he told AFP.
“This second infiltration bid (in Nowgam) by an unknown number of terrorists has also been foiled and the operation is on”.
India regularly accuses its arch-rival of arming and sending rebels across the border that divides Kashmir between the two countries, to launch attacks on its forces.
The latest infiltration bid came as New Delhi and Islamabad are locked in a bitter diplomatic war of words following the Uri terror attack, which India has blamed on militants from Pakistan.
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.
The Cold Start doctrine is meant to allow India’s conventional forces to perform holding attacks in order to prevent a nuclear retaliation from Pakistan in case of a conflict. The Army said there was no causality on the Indian side..
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To a question if Congress favoured imposition of President’s Rule in Jammu and Kashmir as suggested in some quarters, Mr Singh said, “Basically, we don’t support promulgation of President’s Rule because it has been misused in Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand (recently) but then the Government of India has to take a stand”.
