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Soldiers' decapitation: India rejects
Pakistan demand for UN probe
Thursday January 10, 2013 08:05:23 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
India Thursday rejected Pakistan's demand that the UN be asked to
probe allegations that Pakistani troops killed and beheaded two
Indian soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir as Indian political parties
called for "tough" action against Pakistan.
"That (Pakistan's) demand is rejected out of hand. We will not
internationalise the issue nor go to the United Nations," Finance
Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters after a cabinet meeting.
He said the cabinet committee on security was briefed about the
Tuesday killings near the Line of Control (LoC).
"Our report is that the Indian forces did not violate the
ceasefire (in place in LoC since 203)," he said.
In Islamabad, Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar
reiterated the demand for a third party enquiry into ceasefire
violations on the LoC.
Khar, addressing a news conference, said Islamabad abides by the
2003 ceasefire. She added that Pakistan has also contacted UN
Military Observer Group for India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) to probe
the killing of one of its soldiers Jan 6 in alleged firing by
Indian troops. She had a day ago denied the killing of Indian
soldiers was a "tit-for-tat" reaction.
According to Radio Pakistan, a Pakistani soldier was killed
Thursday when "Indian troops resorted to unprovoked firing at
Tatta Pani Sector in Kotli today".
Hamid Mir of Geo TV said in a tweet: "Tatta Pani sector of Kashmir
became another battlefield, one Pakistani soldier Havaldar
Mohyudin martyred by Indian shelling."
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the heightened border
tensions will not to come in the way of a liberalized visa
agreement between India and Pakistan.
"The visa agreement (inked last year) will be carried out as
scheduled, there is no rethink on it," Shinde told reporters.
National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon noted that ceasefire
violations by Pakistan on the LoC had increased last year. "There
has been an increase in ceasefire violations by Pakistan and in
infiltration attempts in 2012 over 2011."
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party said it would organize
nation-wide protests Friday over the killings of the two soldiers.
"People are very angry over this matter," BJP spokesperson Nirmala
Sitaraman said, adding: "We hold the Pakistan government and army
accountable for breaking the ceasefire."
"We should give proof, name and shame Pakistan for having done
this... we can't afford to have our goodwill misused," she added.
BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said the party would support the UPA
government if it takes "tough" decisions against Pakistan for the
killings.
Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray demanded that India
should "take revenge" against Pakistan for the brutal killing of
the two soldiers.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati asked the government to
take "strong action" to ensure that such brutalities are not
repeated and that India-Pakistan relations did not suffer.
The US has asked India and Pakistan to talk to each other to
improve relations.
"We're urging both sides to take steps to end the violence. We
continue to strongly support any efforts to improve relations
between the two countries," State Department spokesperson Victoria
Nuland told reporters in Washington.
The UNMOGIP has asked India and Pakistan to respect the ceasefire
and de-escalate tensions. The UNMOGIP said it has received an
official complaint from the Pakistan Army to probe the Jan 6
killing of a Pakistani soldier. But Martin Nesirky, spokesman for
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, said no official complaint had been
from India or Pakistan on the second "alleged incident" of Jan 8
for a probe.
Indian Army sources have denied a media report linking the current
border skirmishes to an elderly Kashmiri woman crossing into
Pakistani Kashmir to be with her children. The sources also denied
the Indian Army had transgressed the LoC on Jan 6, and said
soldiers had only carried out "controlled retaliation" in response
to a ceasefire violation by Pakistan.
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