Indian Home Minsiter accuses Pakistan of being ‘terrorist state’
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Home Minister Rajnath Singh in a series of Twitter posts termed Pakistan a ‘terrorist state’ in an anti-Pakistan rant on Sunday after suspected militants attacked Indian army base in India-held Kashmir (IHK).
“Pakistan is a terrorist state and should be identified and isolated as such,” Rajnath tweeted.
Rajnath Singh
✔@rajnathsingh
Pakistan is a terrorist state and it should be identified and isolated as such.
11:54 AM - 18 Sep 2016
“I am deeply disappointed with Pakistan’s continued and direct support to terrorism and terrorist groups,” the Indian home minister said.
Rajnath Singh
✔@rajnathsingh
I am deeply disappointed with Pakistan’s continued and direct support to terrorism and terrorist groups.
11:56 AM - 18 Sep 2016
He further said that he had spoken to the region’s political and military leadership and had instructed senior officials to monitor the situation.
He cancelled planned trips to Russia and the United States.
“We have activated the entire force in and around Uri sector to step up security and launch combing operations,” a senior Home Ministry official told media.
“It is clearly a case of the cross-border terror attack. We don’t know which group is involved,” this official added.
Rajnath Singh
✔@rajnathsingh
I have given instructions to the Home Secretary and other senior officers in MHA to closely monitor the situation in Jammu and Kashmir
6:23 AM - 18 Sep 2016
There has been no independent claim of responsibility.
The military death toll was the worst in Indian-ruled Kashmir since a raid in December 2014, also near Uri which is to the west of the region’s main city of Srinagar, in which eight soldiers and three police were killed.
India accuses Pakistan of supporting ‘militant’ attacks in its northernmost state of Jammu and Kashmir, which they both claim in full but rules only in part.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently raised the stakes in their decades-old feud by expressing support for separatists within Pakistan.
Read more: Those behind IHK base attack not to go unpunished, says Modi
Pakistan denies any role in cross-border terrorism and has called on the United Nations and the international community to investigate atrocities it alleges have been committed by the security forces in Indian-ruled Kashmir.
Relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours have been on edge since a New-Year attack on an Indian air force base in Punjab, near the border with Pakistan, that killed seven uniformed men.
India has blamed a Pakistan-based group for that attack but, after initial progress, an attempt to conduct a joint investigation has lost momentum.
The two sides have frozen a tentative peace dialogue.
Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since the two gained independence from British rule in 1947. Both claim the Himalayan territory in full.
Indian-administered Kashmir has been in the grip of widespread protests against Indian rule for more than two months, sparked by the killing of a popular rebel leader in a gun battle with soldiers on July 8.
At least 87 civilians have been killed and thousands injured in the deadly protests and clashes, the worst violence to hit the region since 2010.
Several rebel groups have for decades fought Indian soldiers — currently numbering around 500,000 — deployed in the territory, demanding independence for the region or its merger with Pakistan.
Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died in the fighting.
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