Type: Parliament Questions and Answers

Will the Minister of EXTERNAL AFFAIRS be pleased to satate :-

(a) the number of incidence of beheading and killing of our soldiers by Pakistan so far;

(b) Government’s reaction thereon;

(c) whether Government still feels that it must go ahead for peace-talks with Pakistan; and

(d) if so, the details thereof?

ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS (SHRI E. AHAMED)

(a) & (b) On January 8, 2013 regular Pakistani troops crossed the Line of Control at the Mendhar sector and engaged Indian troops who were patrolling this sector. Two Indian soldiers were killed in the attack, and their bodies subjected to barbaric and inhuman mutilation including the beheading of one of them. It has been conveyed to the Pakistani Government that repugnant acts of this nature by the Pakistan army are in contravention of all norms of international conduct, cannot be accepted, and there is need for action to ensure they do not recur.

(c) & (d) The dialogue process with Pakistan has not been halted. However, Pakistan should not believe that brazen denials of the act and lack of proper responses to our demarches on the January 8 incident in the Mendhar sector of the LoC will be ignored and that bilateral relations could be unaffected and that there will be business as usual.

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