NEW DELHI – Frustrated over the failure to curb homegrown freedom fight inOccupied Kashmir, Indian Army Vice Chief threatens cross border strike intoPakistan to curb militants.
Vice Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen Devraj Anbu has said the security forceswould not hesitate to launch another surgical strike against terrorists ifthe need to do so arises.
“The surgical strike on militant launchpads across the border was a show ofstrength by our armed forces and we won’t hesitate to do it again if theenemy challenges us,” Lt Gen Anbu said in reply to a question by reporterson the sidelines of the Indian Military Academy’s Passing Out Parade (POP)in Dehradun on Saturday.
India claimed conducted the surgical strike on September 29, 2016 acrossthe Line of Control as a response to a terrorist attack on an Indian Armybase in Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir earlier that month.
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Nineteen Indian soldiers died in the attack.