NEW DELHI – The Indian Army has categorically rejected reports on socialmedia that it has captured a village in the Neelum Valley on the Pakistaniside of Kashmir.
“A lot of misinformation is being spread out like opening of Line ofControl fence or capturing village in Pak side of Kashmir. All this is fakenews spread by Pak agencies, ” Army sources said on Saturday evening.
Army sources say no such incident has taken place anywhere close to theLine of Control.
For the last few hours, a huge number of people have been tweeting aboutIndia’s occupation of Keran village in the Neelum valley.
Earlier in the day, Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi wrote aletter to the UN saying that India has made new deployments of Bramhosmissiles and anti-tank Spike missiles across the border.
“India has deployed BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, Spike anti-tankguided missiles in Kashmir. Since August, the missile tests carried out byIndia has been also indicating the malicious intent,” Qureshi said.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned Indialinkagainstlaunching any cross border strike or creating support for war in an attemptto divert attention from its domestic political problems.
India has conducted over a dozen of missile tests in December alone andthree since Thursday. On 17 December, New Delhi declared that theintegration of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile with its mainstreamfighter jet Su-30MKI was complete.
India and Pakistan have been divided by the Line of Control (LoC), ade-facto border for decades. Tensions have escalated between the twonuclear-armed nations since 14 February when 40 Indian security personnel werekilled in a suicide bombing attacklink inKashmir. A Pakistan-based terror group claimed responsibility for it.
In August, India revokedlinkthespecial status of Kashmir and turned it into a federally administered unionterritory. This caused Pakistan to raise the issue with the UN, Sputnik hasreported.
