Top military commanders of India and Pakistan spoke at 6.30pm on Wednesday after Islamabad accused India of killing 14 people – 10 bus passengers, a motorcyclist and three soldiers – in separate incidents near the Line of Control in Kashmir and Jammu.
Indian shelling across the frontier into Pakistan-controlled Kashmir hit a bus from 9am to 4.30pm on Wednesday came a day after three Indian army personnel were killed. One of them was beheaded in the incident on Tuesday, the second such act since October 28 in the Machil sector of Kashmir.
India’s military operations commander, Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh, said only Pakistani posts, which had opened fire on India, were targeted.
Singh also expressed concern in a phone conversation with his Pakistani counterpart, Major General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, over casualties caused to Indian civilians and soldiers due to unprovoked firing by Pakistani soldiers.
He also raised the issue of infiltration attempts by terrorists across the border into Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistani soldiers providing them cover and their unethical act of mutilating the body of Indian soldiers.
“Pakistan’s [director general of military operations] was exhorted to exercise strict control on their troops to refrain from any nefarious activities. This would lead to the return of normalcy along the Line of Control,” the Indian Army said.
Indian military sources said the Pakistani passenger bus was hit by accident when it suddenly traversed a bend in the Lawat area.
Lawat is 100km northeast of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-held Kashmir, in the upper belt of the Neelum Valley that straddles the de facto border dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
Indian troops stationed above Lawat were then firing heavily on the road to block movement of Pakistan military traffic.
On the diplomatic front, India summoned Pakistan Deputy High Commissioner Syed Haider Shah to strongly protest against India’s continued ceasefire violations and mutilation of bodies of its soldiers.
Shah protested against India’s unprovoked firing which, he said, had left more than 50 civilians dead so far.
Tension over the Himalayan region has run high since a September cross-border raid on an army base killed 19 Indian soldiers, prompting what New Delhi called retaliatory “surgical strikes” against Islamist militants in Pakistan.
Relations between nuclear-armed neighbours Pakistan and India have been strained for several months, while cross-frontier shelling has intensified leading to the deaths of civilians and soldiers stationed along the disputed frontier.
Kashmir lies at the heart of the tension. The countries have fought two of their three wars over the region since partition and independence from Britain in 1947.
Additional reporting by Reuters
India has a history of killing civilians on both sides of the LOC, first on the Indian occupied Kashmir, Killing more than 200,000 civilians in Indian occupied Kashmir against the illegal indian occupation over kashmir and the struggle and protest against any occupation is supported and mandated by UN Security Council, also more than 25000 females and girls were raped in Kashmir, over million of unarmed civilian were injured and blinded by using rubber bullets, pellets and chemical weapons. On the side of Pakistan LOC, Indians always fired light infantrry weapons before but lately, they are using heavy artillary against Civilian population, recently hitting a public bus killing 10 civilian and then hitting an ambulance that came to give injured support. Coward Indian army excels in killing unarmed civilians but the dillemma to Pakistani troops is that they can not fire over the LOC because on both sides of the LOC, there are Kashmiri Muslims are residing and Pakistan has no intentions to kill its own people. UN should take India to task over killing indiscrimately unarmed civilians that is violation of UNSC mandate.
The fate of the Kashmir is ultimately to be decided by the Peoples.
We will not and cannot back out this (Pledge)
We are prepared to have referendum held under international auspices like United Nations.
We want a fair and referendum of the peoples and we will accept their verdict.””
JAWARLAL NEHRU
UN RESOLUTION
RESOLUTION 91 (1951) CONCERNING THE INDIA-PAKISTAN QUESTION SUBMITTED BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF UNITED KINGDOM AND UNITED STATES AND ADOPTED BY THE SECURITY COUNCIL ON MARCH 30, 1951. (DOCUMENT NO. S/2017/REV. I, DATED THE 30TH MARCH, 1951)
Observing that the Governments of India and Pakistan have accepted the provisions of the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan resolutions of 13 August, 1948, and 5 January, 1949, and have re-affirmed their desire that the future of the State of Jammu and Kashmir shall be decided through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite conducted under the auspices of the United Nations,
*RESOLUTION 98 (1952) ADOPTED BY THE SECURITY COUNCIL AT ITS 611TH MEETING ON 23 DECEMBER, 1952. (DOCUMENT NO. S/2883, DATED THE 24TH DECEMBER
India is on a wicked path, which will destroy both countries. Solution is simple let Kashmiri people decide their future. World is also playing a criminal role by keeping quite on the plight of Kashmiris and ignoring Indian atroticies there. not forcing India to plebecide.
To ALL THOSE CITING UN Resolutions on Kashmir…Since 2010, UN has delisted Kashmir from its list of disputes…the issue is to be resolved bilaterally between India and Pakistan according to 1972 Shimla agreement, the only solution is for Pakistan to vacate POK as INDIA holds the TITLE DEED of J&K…and Pakistan should also grant independence to Balochistan…enough of killing of innocent Baloch, rapes of their women and murder of their children.
Mr. Mohamma Ashraf, please listen to Prof. Christina Fair on YT about the UN resolutions on Kashmir. Once you have understodd them, then talk about them…Let us know when you are vacating Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
According to the partition of British India, the areas directly ruled by British had the choice of joining India or Pakistan. The 560 Princely states had the freedom to choose…Maharaja Hari Singh chose India as Pakistan violated the October 1947 standstill agreement and invaded J&K. The Maharaja signed instrument of accession with INDIA…the TITLE DEED of J&K state is in India’s name….Those Kashmiris who do not want to be part of India can surely go to Pakistan, which was created for Muslims of British India…Case Closed…vacate POK.
U talking killing innocent Baloch, even they kill their own
Well, he never got it approved by the parliament, so that resolution had no authenticity of the Indian state.
Besides, the UN resolutions are in Chapter-VI which are non binding in nature, do you understand what it means? Also go on YT and search for Dr. Prof. Christina Fair’s lecture to a Pakistani dimwit Student on this UN resolution question.
What mandate of UN security counsil??? Don’t fudge the words and their meanings. CHAPTER-VI is the KEY WORD, now go back to the rock from under which you came out.
Oh! And looks like you forgot to put a few more zeros behind all the numbers you have given above, when you let the imagination loose, why hold back??
@facon dave, i am sorry to tell you, you are shamless liar, UN never delisted Kashmir from UN resolutions, presense of UN observors is proof of it on LOC your hypocaracy accept or not. i am quoteing you direct resolution still on record and shamless denial will not help you. if you want to full Kashmir and it is yours go to UN OR INTERNATION COURT OF LAW and present your case why you are ashmed of it.
those trained by RAW your terrorist organiation need to be elemnated and arrest of your on duty commonder KALBOUSION is prove of it. and your PM a terrorist, was called boucher of Muslims and was not allowed to enter in USA FOR three year. If you can elect a terroist person you are terrorist country as whole.
Mohammad Ashraf : Look up all you want to, the defunct resolutions remains, but Kashmir has been delisted from its agenda…LOL You guys are still living in denial and 1,400 year behind…
India does not recognize International Court of Law or Justice, or accept its authority over India.
Just today, your Sartaj Aziz said in Paki parliament that there is no conclusive proof against Kulbhushan Jadhav. The guy was kidnapped by ISI from Chabahar in Iran.
it is Paki Army and ISI which are the terror supporters and breedors…you breed venomous snakes and they come back to bite you as TTP and LeJ does…Serves you right…