“Enough is enough. It is time that Pakistan be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism”, said Jagdish Sewhani president of American India Public Affairs Committee.
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Briefing reporters on Monday, Director General Military Operation (DGMO), Lt. Gen. Ranbir Singh, had said the Indian Army, reserves the right to respond to the terror strike “at a place and time of our choosing”, adding that “we have the desired capability to reply to such a blatant act of violence in a manner as deemed appropriate by us”.
He said there had been 17 infiltration bids from across the border with Pakistan in 2016.
He also suggested that China and Israel should be taken into confidence and persuaded to support Indias retaliatory actions against Pakistan.
Even as India and Pakistan come to loggerheads at the United Nations in NY, with Indians raising the issue of Pakistan’s involvement in the Uri massacre and Pakistan lobbying for global intervention in Kashmir, the Pakistani foreign establishment seems to be losing patience with the Indian media.
Raising human rights violations in Pakistan, India said, “the people of Balochistan, amongst other provinces, have been waging for decades a bitter and fearless struggle against their daily abuse and torture”.
Modi has tried to assuage the anger, tweeting that, “I assure the nation that those behind this despicable attack will not go unpunished”.
World leaders have condemned Sunday’s attack in Uri, while China might bring up the issue of terror with Pakistan, in connection with the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor that is being planned, PTI reported.
Ram Madhav, the party’s general secretary, said India needed to hit back hard.
India’s portion of Kashmir has been under a major security lockdown during more than two months of protests sparked by the July 8 killing of a popular young commander of a Kashmiri militant group.
India is to present all actionable evidence against Pakistan if required at worldwide bodies.
The concern is that Modi’s government has signaled a lower threshold for retaliation against attacks from Pakistan than the previous Congress government, which adopted a policy of “strategic restraint”.
Such ammunition, experts believe, points to the backing the terrorists received from the Pakistan Army.
Official sources said the NIA team, which was now camping at Uri, would collect the DNA samples of the four unidentified terrorists and their pictures would be shown to Jaish cadres lodged in various jails of the state as well as other parts of the country. She had called for a tough response after the January 2013 raid.
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“Mr Prime Minister are you not weak?” In an apparent fallout of Uri terror attack, Russian Federation has called off its joint military exercise with Pakistan, CNN-News 18 reported on Monday.
