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Khurshid talks tough on LoC killings
India on Sunday said it wants the Pakistan Government to take responsibility for killing of five of its soldiers on the LoC and asserted that all issues will be factored in "objectively" in dealing with the neighbouring country. Noting that Pakistan government will remain responsible for any such incidents, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said India has done a "lot more" to contribute to the peace process and insisted that the neighbouring country must take responsibility for the LoC incident.
‘Responsibility must rest with the Pak government. Our meeting point is with the civilian-elected government of Pakistan, not the Pakistan Army or any other agency’
New Delhi (PTI): India on Sunday said it wants the Pakistan Government to take responsibility for killing of five of its soldiers on the LoC and asserted that all issues will be factored in "objectively" in dealing with the neighbouring country. Noting that Pakistan government will remain responsible for any such incidents, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said India has done a "lot more" to contribute to the peace process and insisted that the neighbouring country must take responsibility for the LoC incident.
"The responsibility must rest with the government. Our meeting point is the civilian elected government of Pakistan, not the Pakistan Army or any other agency," he said. Referring to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's statement on killing of five Indian soldiers, Khurshid rued that there was no indication of acceptance of responsibility for the attack. "One element is that the regret about what has happened, which has certainly been mentioned. But, there is no indication of acceptance of responsibility. "Whether I can expect or not, we have said that we expect responsibility.
That hasn't happened, one. Two, the other concern of what we have been expecting...Culpability for what happened in Mumbai. There in no indication of that. And, finally, the statement doesn't take into account, the outreach and the extra mile that India has periodically gone to overcome great difficulties posed," Khurshid told Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate programme of CNN-IBN. Asked whether he was looking forward for a meeting between Prime Ministers of the two countries on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York next month, Khurshid did not give a direct reply.
BSF jawan injured in firing by Pakistani troops
Jammu (PTI): Repeatedly violating the ceasefire in the last 36 hours, Pakistani troops opened fire at forward posts along the international border in Jammu and Kashmir, injuring a Border Security Force (BSF) jawan. "There was sniper firing from the Pakistan side this morning along the international border on three posts, including the Alfa Machial Border Out Post (BOP) area in the Kanachak belt of Jammu district," a senior BSF officer said.
BSF jawans responded effectively, leading to heavy exchanges which lasted till 1400 hours, he said. BSF Jawan Pawan Kumar received a bullet in his chest and his legs have been paralysed due to the injury to his spinal cord, doctors at GMC hospital said. He has been referred to AIIMS in Delhi, they added. Pakistani troops have violated the ceasefire three times since yesterday in two different sectors in the Jammu region. Three days after the killing of five jawans, Pakistan troops had yesterday targeted several Indian posts in Poonch district.
Pakistan troops also opened small arms fire at Indian posts in the Balakote-Mendhar forward belt in Poonch district at around 1130 hours on Sunday, Army officials said. Indian troops returned fire but there was no loss of life or damage to property in the exchange, they said.Pakistani Army had fired 7,000 rounds of heavy Pika ammunition and mortar shells during the exchanges which lasted seven hours along the Line of Control yesterday.
