Indian, Pakistani troops exchange fire in Kashmir

Kashmir had its deadliest attack in years when armed gunmen stormed an Indian army base Sunday, killing 18 Indian soldiers and injuring a number of others.

In the wake of Sunday’s deadly terror attack on Uri Army camp in Jammu and Kashmir in which 18 soldiers were martyred, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday held a meeting with his senior ministers and decided that Pakistan must be diplomatically isolated at every worldwide forum, media reports said. In 2016, there have been 17 infiltration bids eliminated by the Indian Army along the Line of Control.

The team has taken charge of the articles recovered from the four suicide attackers who were killed in a gunfight with security forces on Sunday.

September 19 (ANI): Without taking Pakistan’s name, Afghan Ambassador to India Shaida Mohd Abdali on Monday said all terrorist groups are coming from the same source but with different names, and called upon India, Afghanistan and the world community to come up with a joint strategy to fight terrorism out.

Led by Islamist hardliner Maulana Masood Azhar from Pakistan’s Punjab province, the JeM was blamed for the January air base raid in Pathankot and a 2001 attack on Parliament.

The attempts to cross the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri and Nowgam sectors came even as Pakistani troops violated ceasefire and fired at Indian positions in Uri sector.

India regularly accuses its arch-rival Pakistan of arming and sending rebels across the heavily militarized border that divides Kashmir between the two countries, to launch attacks on its forces. This news story is related to Latest/151263-Indian-Pakistani-troops-exchange-fire-Kashmir/ – breaking news, latest news, pakistan ne.

“The FIR was registered on Monday and the investigation of the terrorist attack began on the same day”, said an official. Out of four, two bodies were reportedly charred below the waist.

College and university students, lawyers, political parties, traders and various other organisations took out separate protest rallies in solidarity with the army and against the Pakistan for “aiding and abetting terrorism”. It will ascertain the route taken by the militants to infiltrate through the border in India.

India’s DGMO Lt General Ranbir Singh has said that all the four killed terrorists were foreigners and had carried with them items which had Pakistani markings and that initial reports indicated that they belonged to Pakistan-based Jaish-E-Mohammed terrorist group.