5 Indian
soldiers killed in attack by Pakistani troops on Indian post
Pakistani troops
attacked an Indian post along the Line of Control in the Poonch sector in Jammu and Kashmir late
Monday night, killing five Indian soldiers. Defence sources on Tuesday said the
Pakistani soldiers intruded into the Indian territory
past midnight and ambushed the Sarla post on the Indian side of the LoC. Five
Indian soldiers were killed, the sources said.
Parliament
outraged
The issue rocked
Parliament on Tuesday with members in both Houses demanding a strong response
from the Government. Both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha were adjourned till
noon.
Meanwhile, Jammu
and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tweeted, “(I) was briefed early this
morning about the news that five of our soldiers had been killed on the LoC. My
heartfelt condolences to their next of kin. These incidents don’t help efforts
to normalise or even improve relations with Pak and call in to question the Pak
Govt’s recent overtures,” he said. Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh is taking stock
of the situation, Army sources said in Delhi.
The
incident could cast a shadow on the resumption of the Indo-Pak dialogue process
expected later this month. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani
counterpart Nawaz Sharif are slated to meet in New York next month on the sidelines of the
UN General Assembly session. The incident comes hours after a BSF jawan was
injured in firing from across Indo-Pak border in Samba district of J-K.
“There was
sniper firing from some persons at around 15:55 hours from Pakistan side along
the International Border (IB) at Narainpur Border Out Post (BOP) area in
Ramgarh sector,” a senior BSF officer said. Two rounds were fired from Pakistan
side and the bullets hit Head Constable Ram Niwas Meena of 200 Battalion, he
said.
On
July 27, another BSF jawan was injured when Pakistani troops violated ceasefire
twice in the space of 10 hours by targeting Indian posts along the Indo-Pak
border in Poonch and Kathua districts. The Pakistani troops had used mortars,
RPGs and heavy machine guns leading to heavy firing exchanges.
On
July 3, Pakistan
violated ceasefire when it fired on cops, who had gone to LoC in Sabzian,
Poonch to collect the body of a Pakistani intruder killed in an IED blast on
July 1. Pakistani troops fired on troops trying to evacuate injured porters
after two were killed in IED attack by Pakistani militants along LoC in Poonch
on July 8. On July 12, Pakistani Rangers fired on Indian forward posts in Pindi
belt along International Border (IB) in Jammu
district. Pakistani troops opened small arms firing on Indian posts in forward
area along LoC in Poonch district on the night of July 22
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/
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