“It is time for the US to take a serious look at the foreign military assistance to Pakistan and how those resources are being diverted to cross-border terrorism and other nefarious activities”, said Indian National Overseas Congress, USA.
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In a separate briefing, State Department spokesman Mark Toner was more direct, saying the USA will “continue to urge Pakistan to take additional steps to deal with all of the terrorist threats that it faces on its own territory but also those groups that frankly, that seek refuge or safe refuge within Pakistan’s borders”.
None of the accused State personnel have been investigated or prosecuted.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting on Monday to analyze the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and to decide the future course of action to be followed in the matter.
The army said that India was promoting a “hostile narrative”.
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has backed Pakistan and called on India to immediately cease “atrocities” in Kashmir and peacefully settle the issue in accordance with wishes of Kashmiri people and the UNSC resolutions. Both claim the disputed Himalayan territory in its entirety and have fought two wars over it.
Washington has already cut back military and economic aid to Pakistan, in part because it says Islamabad did not target the Pakistan-based Haqqani militant network blamed for a widening insurgency in Afghanistan.
Indian army spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia said there had been a “ceasefire violation” near Uri, where Sunday’s attack took place, but gave no details.
He claimed that this time the demonstration would be even bigger than the million march held by Kashmiris in NY previous year.
Though there is a chorus for a surgical strike on terror camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), the government is weighing all options.
Geeta (in yellow), wife of Ravi Paul, an Indian army soldier who was killed in Sunday’s attack at an Indian army base in Kashmir’s Uri, mourns at her house in Sarwa village in Samba district, south of Jammu, September 19, 2016.
“There seems to be some activity across the border but there has been no activity from our side, not one shot fired from here”, he told Reuters. “It has exposed the flaws and the weakness of our security infrastructure and an immediate overhaul is the first job on hand”.
It was the worst attack on the Indian Army in many years.
He also conveyed his condolences to the families of the martyred soldiers, an official press release said.
The bus passed through Uri and passengers waited at the LoC border ready to cross.
Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria in an interview said: “Indian forces have unleashed worst state terrorism in Kashmir”, Radio Pakistan reported.
The survey was conducted among 2,464 respondents from April 7 to May 24, said half of the respondents disapprove of Modi’s management of India’s volatile relationship with Pakistan.
Pakistan has an estimated 120 nuclear warheads against India’s 110, according to the Arms Control Association. It is true that Pakistan is far from the state of global isolation that India wants it to be “punished” with, but it is also true that most of Pakistan’s appeals, internationally, fall on deaf ears. But he didn’t offer evidence tying the attack to the group.
Preliminary investigations carried out by the army suggest that the militants belonged to Jaish-e-Mohammad, a Pakistan-based Islamist terror organisation.
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Pakistan denies sending fighters into Indian-administered Kashmir. 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.
