“In line with its “zero tolerance” policy against terrorism and violent extremism, Bangladesh firmly stands beside India at the this hard hour”, the statement from Dhaka said.
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According to reports, 20 rounds were fired from small arms at the Indian post.
“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.
The attack on brigade headquarters in Uri, located in the Indian-occupied Kashmir, has brought Pakistan-India relationship to a whole new low. The militants were also killed in the attack.
“17 soldiers make the supreme sacrifice”, the command said on Twitter on Sunday, referring to the Uri area, about 100km west of the troubled northern region’s main city of Srinagar.
As the government considered its options, the Indian Army ruled out any knee-jerk response while stressing that it had the “desired capability” to respond.
Meanwhile, the combing operation around the army camp in Uri was called off on Monday evening and the area was declared secured after the recovery of 39 under barrel grenade launchers, five hand grenades, two radio sets, two Global Positioning System, two map sheets, two matrix sheets a mobile phone and a large number of food and medicine packets bearing Pakistani markings. “We know Pakistan is behind it”, Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre said on Indian television yesterday.
Army spokesman Manish Kumar said a number of infiltrators had been killed, but he could not confirm how many.
“Since 1989, a militant insurgency supported by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency has left thousands of Hindus dead, and has driven out more than 350,000 people from the Kashmiri Pandit community from the Kashmir Valley”, it alleged.
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.
“Pakistan has had territorial ambitions over Kashmir since 1947 that has found concrete expression in the aggression it embarked on in 1947, 1965 and 1999”.
He said that “the Prime Minister and Secretary Kerry expressed strong concern with recent violence in Kashmir – particularly the army base attack – and the need for all sides to reduce tensions”. Many officials are pointing fingers at India’s neighbor, Pakistan.
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In 2016 so far, the Indian Army has foiled 19 infiltration bids from across the border.
