More surgical strikes if India's security is challenged: Manohar Parrikar
- by Leah Brady
- in Worldwide
- — Oct 3, 2016
"We have neither escalated nor want to increase tensions", the Dawn quoted Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations, Lt. Gen. Asim Bajwa, as telling media at a forward command post on the Line of Control (LoC).
Pakistan has denied the Indian claim of the surgical strike, terming it as a "hyped routine border clash".
Similar view has been upheld by United Nations saying that its observer groups in India and Pakistan are collecting details about "ceasefire violations". India has blamed the Uri attack as well as the January 2 Pathankot attack, which left seven Indian security personnel dead, on Pakistan-based militants.
"This is a risky moment for the region", Pakistan's Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi told AFP after meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at UN headquarters in NY. The Indian Motion Picture Artists Association announced it would ban Pakistani actors from Bollywood movies and several large Pakistani cinema chains announced they would stop showing Indian movies.
On Sept. 29, the Indian military claimed to have carried out a "surgical strike" across the Kashmir border that destroyed what it called a "terrorist launching pad" used by Kashmir-based militants.
Indian Border Security Force soldiers patrol near the India-Pakistan global border area at Gakhrial boder post in Akhnoor sector, about 48 kilometers from Jammu, India, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016.
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Kashmir, a Muslim-majority region, has been disputed territory between India and Pakistan for 70 years.
Earlier, Mr Dujarric in his media briefing said the Secretary General was following the situation along the Line of Control between India and Pakistan with great concern and had urged both the governments to exercise maximum restraint and address the outstanding issues peacefully and through dialogue.
The two countries have been in heated dispute over the region of Kashmir, which lies between them in the Himalayan mountains.
He said that at a time when the world was keen to engage with India, the "fear of the unknown" could be the biggest obstacle, which the Indian diaspora could help overcome.
"Facts are facts, we presented the facts and that's where we stand", he said. 19 soldiers were killed in the brazen assault launched by four Pakistani terrorists who were eliminated in the counteroffensive by the Army.
