Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s senior aide Sartaj Aziz on Monday said the attack on an Indian military base in Kashmir was a blatant attempt on New Delhi’s part to deflect attention from the situation in Indian Kashmir.
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The Defence Minister and the Army Chief had visited Kashmir after the terror attack on Sunday.
According to Indian media report, a group of four attackers stormed the Brigade headquarters of Indian army in Uri sector, Occupied Kashmir and killed 17 troops.
In the backdrop of Uri terrorist attack, the armies of Pakistan and India on Sunday established hotline contact, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.
Earlier, Mr Singh said on Twitter that “there are definite and conclusive indications that the perpetrators of the Uri attack were highly trained, heavily armed and specially equipped”.
Evidence of Pakistan’s hand in Uri attack i.e. Global Positioning System tracker movements that go back to starting point in Pakistan, Pashto literature, Pakistan Army marked arms will be given to Islamabad at the DGMO level, sources add.
The meeting assessed the ground situation in bordering areas in states like Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Gujarat.
Speaking to reporters after Pakistan Prime Minister’s Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz raised the Kashmir issue at the 17th Non-Aligned Movement Summit, Akbar slammed Pakistan for giving sanctuary and support, both domestic and worldwide to terrorists and investing in the evil menace of terrorism.
Military experts have called for India to keep open the military solution to Pakistani aggression across the border, after the Uri attack.
“France remains at India’s side in the combat against terrorism”.
With Islamabad rejecting New Delhi’s claims that it was involved in the deadly attack in Uri, where 17 Army soldiers lost their lives, Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre on Monday asserted that India did not need Pakistan’s clarifications, as their involvement in the terror strike was concrete. “It has to be taken coolly and with proper planning”, Singh said. It also said that India has a “history of blaming Pakistan” immediately after a terror strike, NDTV reported. “My salute to them”, he said in another tweet. The fire also engulfed the nearby barracks, the sources said.
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They recalled that in the case of Mynamar a year ago, the Army carried out an operation along the border against NSCN-K militants involved in the killing of 18 soldiers in Manipur in June, 2015 only after a week.
