07-06-2008, 04:29 PM
this story will not die down soon.
This headline though is misleading as Indian troops were not killed.
Flip-flop: Pak says Indian troops killed
Pranab Dhal Samanta
New Delhi, July 5:In a turnaround on the intriguing incident of June 19 on the Line of Control in which four Pakistani soldiers were killed in a crossfire with militants, the Pakistan government has lodged an official protest with India alleging that its soldiers were actually killed by Indian troops.
In fact, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi raised this issue with the Indian side during his curtailed visit to India on June 27. Itâs learnt that he termed the incident as âcross-border firingâ and asked a perplexed Indian government to take adequate measures to prevent such incidents in the future.
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While the Indian side looks into the matter, South Block is quite stunned by this turnaround as Pakistan Military Spokesperson Maj Gen Athar Abbas had attributed the incident to âunknown miscreantsâ, a term Pakistan usually uses for militants, on the day of the incident.
The version that has by and large been accepted until now in India is that militants were trying to cross the LoC in the Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch area on June 19. They came under heavy fire from the Indian side and began to push back. It is believed that in the process they ran into a Pakistani patrol leading to a crossfire which resulted in killing of four Pakistani soldiers.
Since it was quite dark, there was considerable confusion on the Pakistani side but its military spokesperson made it clear, almost immediately, that there was exchange of fire with âmiscreantsâ in the Hajra sector of Rawalkot opposite Poonch on the Pakistan side.
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This headline though is misleading as Indian troops were not killed.
Flip-flop: Pak says Indian troops killed
Pranab Dhal Samanta
New Delhi, July 5:In a turnaround on the intriguing incident of June 19 on the Line of Control in which four Pakistani soldiers were killed in a crossfire with militants, the Pakistan government has lodged an official protest with India alleging that its soldiers were actually killed by Indian troops.
In fact, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi raised this issue with the Indian side during his curtailed visit to India on June 27. Itâs learnt that he termed the incident as âcross-border firingâ and asked a perplexed Indian government to take adequate measures to prevent such incidents in the future.
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While the Indian side looks into the matter, South Block is quite stunned by this turnaround as Pakistan Military Spokesperson Maj Gen Athar Abbas had attributed the incident to âunknown miscreantsâ, a term Pakistan usually uses for militants, on the day of the incident.
The version that has by and large been accepted until now in India is that militants were trying to cross the LoC in the Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch area on June 19. They came under heavy fire from the Indian side and began to push back. It is believed that in the process they ran into a Pakistani patrol leading to a crossfire which resulted in killing of four Pakistani soldiers.
Since it was quite dark, there was considerable confusion on the Pakistani side but its military spokesperson made it clear, almost immediately, that there was exchange of fire with âmiscreantsâ in the Hajra sector of Rawalkot opposite Poonch on the Pakistan side.
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