Pak given Uri proof
WORK ON 20 PAK POSTS FOR BORDER MANAGEMENT OVER REVOCATION OF INDUS WATER TREATY IS A WAR, SAYS AZIZ PAK SAYS IT IS READY TO RESPOND TO ANY CHALLENGE
In a breakthrough in the investigation into the attack on the Uri Army camp, the security forces have apprehended two Pakistani nationals, both operatives of Jaish-e-Mohammed, who had helped the fourmember terror module involved in killing 18 Army personnel infiltrate into India.
The duo, identified as Faizal Hussain Awan and Ahasan Khursheed, are now being interrogated for further details by a team of multiple agencies. Awan, 20, is the son of Gul Akbar and a resident Potha Jahangir in Muzaffarabad, while Khursheed, 19, is the son of Mohammed Khurshid, a resident of Khiliana Kalan, Muzaffarabad. The details were shared with Pakistan’s high commissioner Abdul Basit, who was summoned by foreign secretary S. Jaishankar and issued a demarche.
Amid growing tension with India, Pakistan’s military on Tuesday said the armed forces were closely monitoring the situation on the eastern border.
Director General InterServices Public Relations Lieutenant General Asim Saleem Bajwa – the chief spokesman of the army – said the army was “fully prepared to respond to any attack.”
The meeting headed by army chief General Raheel Sharif reviewed the security at the border with Afghanistan.
Diplomatic tensions have spiked between India and Pakistan since the September 18 attack on an army base in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 18 Indian soldiers.
Bajwa said that the meeting discussed the steps being taken for border management by the armed forces.
Addressing a news conference in Peshawar, he said Pakistan wanted peace but was prepared to respond to any challenge.
He said the work has been completed on 20 posts set up for border management to control the movement of terrorists but the process would be more effective if Afghan side cooperate.
General Bajwa said the security forces had prevented 14 terrorist attacks in various parts of the country in recent months.Meanwhile, Pakistan also will approach the UN and the International Court of Justice if India suspends the 58-year-old Indus Waters Treaty, the country's top diplomat Sartaj Aziz said on Tuesday, insisting the revocation of the treaty can be taken as an “act of war”. “The international law states that India cannot unilaterally separate from the treaty,” Aziz, Advisor to PM Nawaz Sharif on Foreign Affairs, said while briefing the National Assembly.