Indian Army rubbishes Pakistan’s claim of killing 11 soldiers along LoC

“No fatal casualties due to Pakistan firing on 14, 15 or 16 November. Pakistan Army Chief’s claim of killing Indian soldiers on 14 November is false,” a senior Army officer of the Northern Command said on Thursday. The same was later posted on the Twitter handle of the Northern Command. Pakistan Army Chief General Raheel Sharif had on Wednesday claimed that his troops killed at least 11 Indian jawans, the day seven Pakistani soldiers were killed in firing by Indian troops across the Line of Control (LoC). 

“The day seven of our soldiers were martyred on the border, we killed at least 11 Indian soldiers,” he had claimed. He had claimed that Pakistan has killed “40-44 Indian troops” in the current clashes but the Indian Army was refusing to accept and own its casualties. General Raheel said India should “show courage” and own the deaths of its security personnel. “The Indian army should man up and accept their losses,” he had said.

India has issued a demarche to Pakistan on continued violation of ceasefire along the LoC and strongly condemned increased concentration of terrorists observed across the border in the vicinity of Pakistani forward posts. The Ministry of External Affairs called in a senior official of the Pakistan High Commission on Wednesday and made a demarche on the continued violation of ceasefire along the Line of Control, the ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said on Thursday.