Army: Machil recoveries show Pak role

Majid Jahangir

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, November 28

Days after two jawans were killed and the body of a third soldier was mutilated in the Machil sector in the frontier Kupwara district, the Army today said recoveries from the area indicate “Pakistan complicity”.

The Army late on Monday released pictures of the recoveries that include surgical gauze with a Pakistani Defence Forces marking, Snooper biscuits, empty bottles and a night vision device with the marking of the US government property.

“A search led to recoveries that indicate Pak complicity,” the Northern Command tweeted.

Pakistani commandoes had crossed the LoC on November 22 and ambushed a counter-infiltration patrol of 57 Rashtriya Rifles at Kumkari near Shalabatu in Machil and killed three soldiers and had beheaded one of them.

A day after, the Army launched a major fire assault along the LoC in the Kashmir region causing “substantive damage” and disrupting the Pakistan army’s vehicular moment in the Neelum valley.

After the LoC escalation, the Director Generals of Military Operations of India and Pakistan spoke to each other over the hotline.