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【New York】If the international community wishes to “avoid a dangerous escalation between India and Pakistan”, it must call on India to halt its “provocations and aggressive actions”, Pakistan told the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 24, responding to Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj’s scathing attack on Islamabad’s promotion of Islamist terrorism.
　Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the U.N. Maleeha Lodhi sought to turn the table on India by accusing India of promoting terrorism against it, violation of human rights in Jammu and Kashmir and the spread of Hindu nationalism in India.

○Surgical strikes were a message, says Army chief Gen. Rawat

【Hyderabad】India had conducted surgical strikes last year as a message to Pakistan. They can continue in future too, said Army chief General Bipin Rawat on the 25th of September.
　“The strikes were more of a messaging that we wanted to communicate and I think that they understand that… If required and if the adversary does not behave, then we have to continue these kind of activities. But there are also other ways of doing these things and they may not take the same form,” he said.
　Gen. Rawat made these comments after releasing the book, India’s most fearless: True stories of modern military heroes authored by two defence journalists, Shiv Aroor and Rahul Singh. The book catalogues 14 personal accounts of soldiers and their courage in extreme situations under hostile conditions, including of officers who participated in the surgical strikes across the Line of Control (LoC) and the strikes on insurgent camps in Myanmar. Eight are of the Army and three each of the Navy and the Air Force.

○Pak violates ceasefire along LoC

【Srinagar】A soldier and a porter working with the army were killed as Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir on the 12th of October.
　An army official said Pakistani troops resorted to heavy shelling and firing on Indian forward areas and border hamlets in KG sector from 10:35 am on Thursday which was strongly and effectively retaliated by the Indian army. “In the exchange of fire, one Army jawan and a civilian porter working with the Army were killed,” he said.
　The ceasefire violations and sniper attacks along the LoC and the International Border (IB) by Pakistani troops have been on rise in the last few months. Three army personnel were killed along the LoC in Poonch on October 3 in a ceasefire violation by Pakistan. A day earlier, two minors died and 12 civilians were injured in cross-border shelling. On September 20, an Army solider was killed and three others injured in sniper fire from the Pakistani side along the LoC in Keran sector of north Kashmir's Kupwara district.

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U.N. must call upon India to halt provocations, says Pakistan

Surgical strikes were a message, says Army chief Gen. Rawat

Army chief Bipin Rawat warns of another surgical strike if needed

Pak violates ceasefire along LoC

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