After Sunjuwan Army Camp Attack: Pakistan Warns India to ‘Refrain’ From Cross-LoC Strike

ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan warned India against cross-border strikes in Kashmir after Indian authorities blamed a Pakistan-based group for an attack on an army camp in which soldiers and their families were targeted.
Saturday’s attack on the camp near Jammu was the worst in months, with five soldiers and the father of one of the soldiers killed and women and children among the 10 wounded. India said the heavily armed attackers were members of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militant group, drawing criticism from Pakistan about rushing to judgment without a full inquiry.
“It is a well established pattern that Indian officials begin making irresponsible statements and levelling unfounded allegations, even before any proper investigation in any incident has been initiated,” Pakistan’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
India, it said, was making these allegations to divert attention from its brutality in trying to control the armed revolt in Kashmir, and warned against any retaliatory measures across the Line of Control.
“We hope that the international community would urge India to stop the untold atrocities and gross violations of human rights in IoK (Indian Occupied Kashmir) (and) refrain from any misadventure across the Line of Control…” it said.
India has long accused Pakistan of training and arming militants and helping them infiltrate across the Line of Control into Jammu and Kashmir. The chief of the Jammu and Kashmir police, SP Vaid, told reporters over the weekend that they had communications intercepts pointing to the JeM.
Jaish militants who attacked Sunjuwan military base ‘crossed over from Pakistan last year’, possibility of local help being probed.
The army said the attackers wore fatigues and had assault rifles, a grenade launcher and grenades. In 2016, India said its elite troops had crossed the Line of Control into Pakistan and carried out a raid on militants after 19 soldiers were killed in an attack on an Indian army base in Kashmir. Pakistan denies giving material aid to the militants in Kashmir. On Monday, Indian soldiers foiled an attack on another camp in Srinagar.