Uri attack: Jaish-e-Muhammad suspects in hand, evidence shown to envoy

India’s efforts to hold Pakistan accountable for the attack on a camp near the 12 Infantry Brigade headquarters in Uri escalated on Tuesday with Islamabad’s envoy to New Delhi, Abdul Basit, being summoned to the Ministry of External Affairs to be presented with evidence that the attack originated from territory under Pakistan’s control.

The National Investigation Agency earlier announced the arrest of two men it says “facilitated” last week’s strike which claimed the lives of 18 soldiers.

Yasin Khursheed, said to be a resident of Khiliana Kalan in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir’s Muzaffarabad, and Faisal Hussain Awan, a resident of Potha Jahangir, disclosed during interrogation that they were ordered to “facilitate infiltration of a group of four Jaish-e-Muhammad cadre who carried out the Uri army camp attack”, the Ministry of External Affairs said.


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Indus Waters Treaty: Five key facts

The Modi govt is under tremendous pressure to take concrete actions against Pakistan to rein in terrorism emanating from its soil against India in the aftermath of the gruesome killing of 18 soldiers in the Uri terror attack on 18 September.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting on Monday with senior government officials to review the Indus Waters Treaty has further raised the possibility that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government may seek to alter or scrap the provisions of the 1960 treaty.

The Modi government is under tremendous public pressure to take concrete actions against Pakistan to rein in terrorism emanating from its soil against India in the aftermath of the gruesome killing of 18 soldiers in the Uri terror attack on 18 September.

But the key question is: Can India take unilateral actions altering the provisions of the treaty? There are no straightforward answers to this question between two hostile nuclear powers.

To put it in perspective, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah wrote in his Tweet last Friday that the 1960 World Bank-mediated Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan has survived three wars and numerous lows in India-Pakistan relations.


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Shut Terror Havens, US Warns Pak; Islamabad's Agenda - Internationalise Kashmir?

The army today foiled two infiltration bids in Jammu and Kashmir - one in Uri, the other in Naugam. This on a day India began its project 'Isolate Pak' with Afghanistan and Bangladesh saying they are "ready to cooperate". Afghan envoy to India told NDTV that his country can consider SAARC boycott in Pakistan. The US, meanwhile, has warned Pakistan to shut terror havens and restrain nuclear weapon programs. On The Buck Stops Here, we debate: what shape should India's 'isolate Pak' project can and should take? Is it time for India to boycott the SAARC session in Islamabad or join hands with countries like Afghanistan and Bangladesh to isolate Pakistan on its own home turf in Islamabad? How will Sushma Swraraj lead the offensive at UN General Assembly? We also look at Pakistan's not so hidden agenda - is the whole point to, once again, internationalise J&K?


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Kashmir issue to dominate Nawaz Sharif’s address at UNGA on Wednesday

Kashmir issue will dominate in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s address to the UN General Assembly in United Nations on Wednesday that comes at a time of heightened tensions between India and Pakistan following the terror attack in Uri.

The General Debate of the UN General Assembly opens Tuesday, with US President Barack Obama making his final appearance as Commander-in-Chief at the 71st session.

Sharif will address world leaders from the UNGA podium in the morning session on Wednesday.

While Pakistan has raised the Kashmir issue at the high-level segments of the General Assembly and other UN platforms in previous years, Sharif appears set to take an even more aggressive stand on Kashmir at the world body, having vowed in Pakistan to ’emphatically highlight’ the issue and the alleged human rights abuses by India.


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Pakistan Army chief General Raheel Sharif meets top commanders, reviews army preparedness

Pakistan Army chief Gen Raheel Sharif on Monday met his top commanders and said the military was “watchful” towards the security imperatives of the country in the wake of “hostile narrative” by India after terrorists killed 18 Indian soldiers in Kashmir.

The Corps Commanders’ Conference – held in Rawalpindi and chaired by Gen Sharif – reviewed external and internal security situation and operational preparedness of the army, the army said in a statement.

“Taking note of a hostile narrative being propagated by India, COAS (Gen Sharif) said that we are fully cognizant and closely watching the latest happenings in the region and their impact on the security of Pakistan,” the statement said.

“Armed forces of Pakistan are fully prepared to respond to entire spectrum of direct and indirect threat,” he said, expressing his satisfaction over operational preparedness of the army.



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