Monday, January 15, 2018

India: four Pakistani soldiers, five terrorists killed by Indian Army

(Kashmir)  After the Pakistani army decided to open fire across the border into the Poonch district of India  on Monday morning, Indian army retaliatory mortar fire saw at least 4 Pakistani soldiers killed.


General Bipin Rawat warned that his force would continue to use its "might" to teach Pakistan harsh lessons if it did not cease aiding cross-border terrorism.

Elsewhere the Indian Army killed five JeM terrorists while thwarting a major infiltration bid on the border around 100 km from Srinagar, in an overnight operation that ended on Monday morning. Indian troops detected and tracked the movement of the terrorists as they were trying to infiltrate along the river Jhelum, which flows into Pakistan from India. "In the ensuing firefight, the Army neutralised five terrorists. Four bodies were recovered and the fifth is lying near the boat the terrorists had used to cross the river,"