Why Pakistan army creates rogue teams to mutilate bodies?

Pakistan army has created a number of rogue teams --a mix of its regular Special Services Group commandos and hardened terrorists --to carry out such dastardly acts like mutilations of enemy soliders after they are killed.

These teams act under instructions from the military brass in Islamabad when it wants to rev up tension along the border with acts of brutality, Indian security officials say.

These "killer gangs" operate under the banner of what Pakistani military calls "border action teams" or BAT. They seek to dominate through surreptitious raids along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir.

These men are supposed to be well trained in guerrilla tactics. They are sent to act in small groups of four to ten consisting of the special troops, accompanied by  equally highly trained terrorists for carrying out "small-scale disruptive actions."

Hardcore Islamist terrorists are essentially roped in for two reasons: for carrying out brutalities and, in case of capture at the Indians' hand, they can easily be disowned as "non-state actors."

One such team was involved in the mutilation of  bodies of head constable Prem Sagar of 200th Battalion of the BSF and naib subedar Paramjeet Singh of 22 Sikh of the army on May 1, Indian officials say. They were first killed when their 10-member patrol party was attacked by the rogue team that is suspected to have sneaked 200 metres into Indian territory in Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch district.
Of course, like in previous instances, Pakistan army has stoutly denied any involvement.

It's a standard practice to claim that its army is a professional military outfit that "upholds" the highest standards of conduct.

"Allegations of mutilation are an Indian attempt to divert the attention of the world from the situation within the (India-held Kashmir) valley," according to  a statement by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Pakistan army’s media affairs wing.

As the director generals military operations (DGMO) of both countries spoke on hotline on Tuesday, the Pakistani commander told his Indian counterpart that there had been no ceasefire violation or crossing of the LoC by Pakistani troops from the Pakistan side of the border, and hence "the mutilation of the bodies of Indian soldiers was not possible."

But Indian officials have pointed out that it's not the first time such a ghastly incident has happened or Pakistan army has taken recourse to outright denials.

During the 1999 Kargil war,  the infamous incident of the killing of Captain Sourabh Kalia and his troops hit headlines.

Captain Kalia was held as a war prisioner (PoW) by Pakistan. He along with five other soldiers, who were part of a patrolling team, were tortured brutally and his badly mutilated body was handed over to India.

In February 2000,  Pakistani terrorists and Al-Qaida member Illyas Kashmiri beheaded a 24-year-old sepoy Bhausaheb Maruti Talekar and took back his head to Pakistan.

During January 2013, the bodies of two Indian soldiers - Lance Naik Hemraj and Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh – were mutilated. This incident had prompted Sushma Swaraj who was leader of opposition in Lok Sabha to declare that “if Pakistan does not return the severed head of the martyred soldier Hemraj, India should get at least 10 heads from the other side.”

On October 28, 2016, terrorists aided by the Pakistan Army crossed the LoC and killed sepoy Mandeep Singh, and mutilated his body in the Macchil sector of Kupwara district.

On November 22, 2016,  three Indian soldiers were killed in the Macchil sector near LoC.  But the body of Rifleman Prabhu Singh was again mutilated.