Pakistan accuses New Delhi of using the attack to deflect attention from unrest in the portion of Kashmir India controls.
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India later accused Pakistan of masterminding the attack, with Home Affairs Minister Rajnath Singh labelling the country a “terrorist state”. The Indian Army by killing the terrorists and foiling their cross over bid have sent signals of coming days to the neighboring terrorist nation, he added.
The only consolation for India came from the French, who, without specifically mentioning Pakistan, called for “decisive action to be taken, in accordance with global law, against the terrorist groups targeting India, particularly the Lashkar-eTaiba, the Jaish-e-Mohammed, and the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen”.
He has said he will highlight the Kashmir issue in his address at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday.
He also said that Pakistan was “open to discussing all measures of restraint and responsibility with India, in any forum or format and without any conditions”.
“It’s a tactical decision”, the officer said. The militants were also killed in the attack. The assailants were killed by the army.
Muhammad Faisal, a director general at the Foreign Office, rejected Gambhir’s accusations that Pakistan was promoting terrorism in India-held Kashmir (IHK) and elsewhere, saying that the Kashmiri uprising after the death of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani “was spontaneous and indigenous”. Asked whether India was considering strike against terrorist camps based in Pakistan, he said no such strategic actions are taken after making announcements.
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.
Pakistan denies any role in the raid, one of the deadliest in the divided Himalayan region over which India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars. “A group of armed infiltrators was immediately spotted”, the source said.
Army officials in New Delhi yesterday had claimed that 15 terrorists had attempted to cross the LoC.
Ten infiltrating militants were killed and an army soldier critically injured in two gunfights in north Kashmir’s Baramulla and Kupwara districts on Tuesday.
Operation for retrieving bodies of militants close to LoC going on. As regards the Uri incident, India must furnish actionable intelligence to Pakistan if it wants the latter to cooperate in the probe it is conducting.
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“Forget about sending in troops or raining down missiles, but don’t rule out certain types of furtive activities, including occasional covert operations that target specific terrorist leaders or facilities”.
