ISLAMABAD/SRINAGAR: Pakistan warned India against cross-border strikes inthe disputed region of Kashmir after Indian authorities blamed aPakistan-based group for an attack on an army camp in which soldiers andtheir families were targeted.
Saturday’s attack on the camp near Jammu, the winter capital of therevolt-torn state of Jammu and Kashmir, was the worst in months, with fivesoldiers and the father of one of the soldiers killed and women andchildren among the ten wounded.
India said the heavily armed attackers were members of the Jaish-e-Mohammad(JeM) militant group, drawing criticism from Pakistan about rushing tojudgment without a full inquiry.
“It is a well established pattern that Indian officials begin makingirresponsible statements and levelling unfounded allegations, even beforeany proper investigation in any incident has been initiated,” Pakistan’sforeign ministry said in a statement.
India, it said, was making these allegations to divert attention from itsbrutality in trying to control the armed revolt in Kashmir, and warnedagainst any retaliatory measures across the Line of Control that dividesKashmir between the nuclear-armed countries.
“We hope that the international community would urge India to stop theuntold atrocities and gross violations of human rights in IoK (IndianOccupied Kashmir) (and) refrain from any misadventure across the Line ofControl…” it said.
The head of the Jammu and Kashmir state police, S.P. Vaid, told reportersover the weekend that they had communications intercepts pointing to theJeM, which has emerged as a top group fighting hundreds of thousands ofIndian forces in Kashmir.
The army said the attackers wore fatigues and had assault rifles, a grenadelauncher and grenades. Agencies