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Indian Army’s Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) spoke to his Pakistani counterpart today and expressed grave concern over the incident involving targeting of Indian patrol team and mutilation of bodies of Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops.
Lt. Gen. AK Bhatt said, such dastardly and inhuman act is beyond the norms of civility and deserves unequivocal condemnation and response. He said, full fire support was provided by Pakistani army post located in the vicinity of the incident site.
The DGMO conveyed his concerns over the presence of Border Action Team training camps near Line of Control.
“The DGMO has conveyed concern about the presence of Border Action Teams (BAT) training camps in the close vicinity of LoC in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK). He conveyed that such a dastardly and inhuman act is beyond any norms of civility and merits unequivocal condemnation and response,” the Army said in a statement on Tuesday.
On Monday, the two soldiers of a joint patrol team of the Army and the Border Security Force were ambushed by a BAT 200 metres from the LoC in KG sector opposite Battal in PoK and two soldiers were killed and their bodies mutilated.
Lt. Gen. Bhatt said that full fire support was provided by the Pakistan Army post located in the vicinity of the incident.
The bodies’ mutilation charge was promptly rejected by the Pakistan DGMO, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.
The DGMO had “rejected baseless and unfounded Indian allegations of mutilation” of Indian Army soldiers’ bodies by the Pakistan Army, it stated. He reiterated that neither any Cease Fire Violations (CFV) occurred in the sector nor crossing of LoC by troops had taken place.
