Pak raiders probably commandos
The Pakistani soldiers wanted to decapitate the second dead Indian soldier and take his head back as well but could not pierce through his vertebrae with their knife or hatchet quickly enough as they wanted to retreat across the Line of Control as soon as possible after their intrusion on Tuesday in Mendhar, in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir, sources said.
Slash marks were also made across the thighs and chests of the two bodies by Pakistani troops.
Sources said the Pakistani Armymen were clad in black uniforms, which indicates they were probably commandos belonging to the Pakistan Army’s Special Services Group. It was this that made the Indian Army positive that these were Pakistani troops, and not militants, even as India lodged a strong protest with Pakistan on Tuesday against the killing of two Indian soldiers and decapitation of one of them as well as the intrusion by regular Pakistani troops into Indian territory. India reminded the Pakistanis that such acts were a grave violation of the rules of exchange by any civilised and professional Army.
The Indian Army will also order a court of inquiry into this incident in which two soldiers of an eight-soldier border patrol were killed by the Pakistani troops who took advantage of heavy fog and crossed the LoC. The two soldiers, who were walking ahead, were separated from the rest of the border patrol.
[“The LoC is steady and stable since yesterday,” Brigadier G.S. Sangha of the Srinagar-based 15 Corps said, our special correspondent reports from Srinagar. He added, “There has been no repercussion here (along the portion of LoC passing through Kashmir region) of Tuesday’s incident in Mendhar sector either.”]
India will most certainly reject Pakistani suggestions of a probe by a UN body as it suspects that this is Pakistan’s ploy to drag in the UN to internationalise the Kashmir issue. There was speculation, meanwhile, that Pakistani troops of the 29 Baloch Regiment assisted Pakistani SSG commandos in the intrusion.
External affairs minister Salman Khurshid voiced fears about the Pakistani action affecting bilateral ties, saying, “The violation of ceasefire is of great concern... if not immediately contained, it will have an adverse impact.”
Pak raiders probably commandos | The Asian Age