‘LeT chief was present in PoK’
11 Jan 2013 7:06 AM IST
The government on Thursday said Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed had visited the border areas in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) a few days before the killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops.
‘It has been our information that in PoK area, Hafiz Saeed had entered and talked to some people,’ he told a press conference here.
Asked whether militants were involved in carrying out the raid on Indian Army soldiers, Shinde said, ‘I do not have that information. But we are very keen to get such information. We are on the line’.
The home minister ruled out putting the new India-Pakistan relaxed visa regime on hold, saying the government was not considering that option despite tension along the Indo-Pak border.
‘Whatever agreement has been entered into, it will be carried on. There is no rethinking on visa agreement,’ he said.
Breaching the ceasefire again, Pakistani troops opened fire on the Indian posts in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch sector Thursday, army officials said.
Army sources told said that Pak troops opened heavy gunfire on Indian posts in Battal area in Poonch, about 230 km north of Jammu, Thursday evening. The firing lasted for half an hour. ‘The Indian army offered a calibrated response,’ an army officer said.
There were no casualties on this side and the officer had no idea as to what happened on the other side of the LoC.
‘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 LoC.
‘Our report is that the Indian forces did not violate the ceasefire (in place in LoC since 203),’ he said.
According to Radio Pakistan, a Pakistani soldier was killed Thursday when ‘Indian troops resorted to unprovoked firing at Tatta Pani Sector in Kotli on Thursday’. 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.’
‘It has been our information that in PoK area, Hafiz Saeed had entered and talked to some people,’ he told a press conference here.
Asked whether militants were involved in carrying out the raid on Indian Army soldiers, Shinde said, ‘I do not have that information. But we are very keen to get such information. We are on the line’.
The home minister ruled out putting the new India-Pakistan relaxed visa regime on hold, saying the government was not considering that option despite tension along the Indo-Pak border.
‘Whatever agreement has been entered into, it will be carried on. There is no rethinking on visa agreement,’ he said.
Breaching the ceasefire again, Pakistani troops opened fire on the Indian posts in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch sector Thursday, army officials said.
Army sources told said that Pak troops opened heavy gunfire on Indian posts in Battal area in Poonch, about 230 km north of Jammu, Thursday evening. The firing lasted for half an hour. ‘The Indian army offered a calibrated response,’ an army officer said.
There were no casualties on this side and the officer had no idea as to what happened on the other side of the LoC.
‘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 LoC.
‘Our report is that the Indian forces did not violate the ceasefire (in place in LoC since 203),’ he said.
According to Radio Pakistan, a Pakistani soldier was killed Thursday when ‘Indian troops resorted to unprovoked firing at Tatta Pani Sector in Kotli on Thursday’. 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.’
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