India will respond at place, time of its choosing: Army on Uri attack
New Delhi, Sep 19: India reserved the right to respond to cross-border terror strike "at a place and time of our choosing", the army said on Monday, a day after an attack on a military base in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 18 soldiers was blamed on Pakistan.
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Response
to
Uri:
After
the
strident
rhetoric,
India
falls
back
on
diplomacy,
to
'isolate' Pakistan
The
Director
General
Military
Operation
(DGMO),
Lt.
Gen.
Ranbir
Singh,
told
reporters
here
that
the
army
had
recovered
more
articles
from
the
possession
of
four
militants
who
were
killed
after
they
attacked
the
army
camp
near
the
garrison
town
of
Uri,
close
to
the
Line
of
Control
(LoC)
--
a
de
facto
border
with
Pakistan.
Among the arms and ammunition recovered from the dead militants were 39 UBGL grenades, five hand grenades, two radio sets, two GPS devices, two maps and "large quantities of food and medicines with Pakistani markings on them", the DGMO said.
He said there had been 17 infiltration bids from across the border with Pakistan in 2016. They were foiled, leaving 110 terrorists dead.
At least 31 of them were killed while crossing the LoC, he said.
"This indicates a desperate attempt from across the border to push infiltrators and create disturbances in India. Infiltration attempts have increased in the last two years," he said.
"We reserved the right to respond at a place and time of our choosing. We have the desired capability to reply to such blatant act of violence in a manner as deemed appropriate by us."
IANS