New Delhi: The Indian army said on Tuesday it has fired at and damaged Pakistani posts along their de-facto border as part of counter-insurgency operations to stop militants from crossing into India.
The army also released what it said was a video of the military action that showed heavy artillery blasting temporary bunkers and shelters on a tree-covered mountain. Army spokesman Maj Gen Ashok Narula said the posts had been targeted “recently, very recently”.
Pakistan military spokesman Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, however, called the Indian claim “false”.
The assault was done along the Nowshera sector in Rajouri.
Narula told journalists the aim of the military action was to “bring down the number of terrorists in Kashmir so that local youth are not encouraged to take up arms”.
“Pakistani army has been providing full support to infiltrators by engaging Indian army posts,” Maj Gen Ashok Narula said, adding they had damaged Pakistani posts in Naushera sector.
“Infiltrations are likely to increase with melting of snow and opening of passes. Operations like Naugam where four terrorists were neutralised on 20-21 May are the instances. This calls for even more pro-active counter-terrorism operations,” Narula said, referring to a usual pattern of increased militant activity in summer.
