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.
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India blamed Sunday’s attack in which 18 soldiers died on Pakistan-based militants.
The government is likely to look into “lapses”, including those in intelligence gathering, leading to the terror attack at the army camp in Uri town that left 18 soldiers dead, informed sources said.
The last few days have, in fact, seen a renewed push by Pakistan to internationalise the Kashmir issue, with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif address at the UNGA on Wednesday expected to be dominated by Kashmir.
Hasina, who is now in NY to attend the 71st UN General Assembly (UNGA), said she is deeply saddened to learn about the dastardly terrorist attack on the army base killing 17 soldiers and injuring many.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to punish those responsible for Sunday’s attack.
Four terrorists struck the camp close to the headquarters of the 12th Brigade at Uri in Baramulla District.
Earlier, the army foiled two such attempts on September 11 and 16 in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch and Uri sectors respectively.
The head of military operations of the Indian army, Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh, said India had the desired capability to respond, without elaborating.
During his election campaign he promised 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. The Kashmir dispute has already triggered three out of the four wars between India and Pakistan.
Army spokesman Manish Kumar said a number of infiltrators had been killed, but he could not confirm how many. It was one of the deadliest terrorist strikes on security forces in recent times.
“The Government of India has to act very strongly and isolate Pakistan in the worldwide sphere, also build up pressure in the Security Council and United Nation General Assembly, so that Pakistan is forced to take action against whether it is LeT or JeM all these people have to be dealt with strongly”.
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“Meanwhile, a headline on Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s response to the Uri attack reads, “‘Pakistan a terrorist state’ ─ Rajnath spews vitriol ahead of UN General Assembly session”.
