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Blood trails prove killers returned to Pakistan after killing soldiers near LoC

Foreign Secretary summons Pakistan High Commissioner, confronts him with proof
Last Updated 03 May 2017, 09:18 IST
The blood trails around the scene of the recent killing of two Indian soldiers along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir proved that the killers had returned to Pakistan.

Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar on Wednesday summoned Islamabad's envoy to New Delhi, Abdul Basit, to his office in South Block and confronted him with evidences of involvement of Pakistani personnel in the recent killing of two Indian soldiers and barbaric mutilation of their mortal remains.

The blood samples collected from the slain soldiers of the Indian Army and Border Security Force and the trail of blood from the scene of killing up to a spot near the Line of Control clearly proved that the killers, who had killed them and mutilated their bodies, had returned to Pakistan, Jaishankar conveyed to Basit.

Naib Subedar Paramjeet Singh of 22 Sikh Regiment of the Indian Army and Head Constable Prem Sagar of the 200th battallion of the Border Security Force were killed near the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. The Indian Army and the BSF alleged that a Border Action Team of Pakistan had come from across the LoC and returned to territory under control of Pakistan after committing the “heinous act”.

Jaishankar conveyed to Basit India's outrage over the incident and its demand for Pakistan “to take immediate action against its soldiers and commanders responsible for this heinous act”.

Islamabad on Tuesday asked New Delhi to provide “actionable evidence” to prove its allegation that Pakistani personnel had crossed the LoC and killed the Indian soldiers.

“Blood samples of Indian soldiers that have been collected and the trail of blood on Roza Nala clearly shows that the killers returned across the Line of Control,” Gopal Baglay, official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs said on Wednesday.

The personnel of the Border Action Team of Pakistan had taken with them the severed heads of the slain Indian Army and BSF soldiers, thus leaving behind blood trails.

The Pakistan Army has since long been maintaining Border Action Teams – comprising not only commandos of its special forces, but also terrorists – for use in cross-LoC operations, like the one it carried out on Monday.

Jaishankar on Wednesday also pointed out to Basit that the attack on the Indian Army and Border Security Force soldiers along the LoC last Monday had been preceded by “covering fire from Pakistani posts in Battal sector (in the vicinity of village Battal)”.

A similar incident of killing of two Indian Army soldiers and mutilation of their mortal remains by Pakistani BAT personnel at Mendher near the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir had prompted New Delhi to suspend its dialogue with Islamabad in January 2013.

Both sides had in December 2015 agreed to restart the stalled dialogue, but New Delhi aborted the process after the January 2016 attack on the Indian Air Force base at Pathankot in Punjab by a gang of Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists from Pakistan.
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(Published 03 May 2017, 07:22 IST)

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