Home Minister of India, Rajnath Singh on Friday cryptically said, at an event in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar that ‘something has happened’, in wake of the celebration the second anniversary of the ‘Surgical Strike Day’ which took place in 2016 on ‘terror launch pads’ across the Line of Control (LoC).
“Our neighboring country Pakistan keeps fostering unrest. It doesn’t refrain from its nefarious activities. People often raise how they mistreat our Border Security Force jawans. You might have seen something… something has happened, I won’t say what. It has happened, it has gone alright. You can believe us, it has been alright – just two-three days ago. Some people know. And you will see ahead, what happens,” Singh said and did not elaborate further.
“I have told the Border Security Force, they are our neighbours, don’t fire the first bullet. But if they fire the first one, don’t count how many you fire back,” he added.
On a similar note, Indian Army General Bipin Rawat said he believed it was time for another surgical strike. “I believe there is a need for one more action (surgical strike). But I would not want to disclose how we want to do it,” he had told India Today in an interview.
General Rawat had also said infiltration from across the LoC persisted despite the call for a ceasefire, and stressed that this cannot be allowed to continue and appropriate action has to be taken to deter terrorists from disrupting peace in Jammu and Kashmir.
Fresh tensions have escalated between the two neighboring countries after External Affairs Minister of India Sushma Swaraj left a meeting of the SAARC foreign ministers early, also attended by her Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi, PTI reported.
After India called off talks with Pakistan citing killing of a BSF personnel, killing of cops in Kashmir and ‘glorifying’ Burhan Wani by issuing postage stamps, Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan called the move ‘arrogant and disappointing.’
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In a statement issued by the Pakistan Foreign Office said that the reasons cited by the Indian side for the decision to cancel the foreign ministers’ meeting, within 24 hours of its public confirmation, are entirely unconvincing.
Moreover India had also said that Pakistan has issued stamps glorifying slain Hizb commander Burhan Wani.
PDP President and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday reacting to the killings of policemen said that Government of India’s ‘muscular policy’ is clearly not working in the valley.
She also added that dialogue now seems to be a ‘distant dream’.
