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Pakistan accuses India of 12 beheadings since 1998: Report
Report follows series of killings of soldiers on both sides earlier this month along de facto border known as the LoC.
Indian Border Security Force soldiers patrol along the India-Pakistan border fence about 27 KM from Wagah on January 13, 2013. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
NEW DELHI:
Pakistan has accused India of decapitating 12 soldiers in cross-border attacks since 1998 and registered a protest with a UN watchdog, a newspaper reported Wednesday, after deadly army clashes earlier this month.
The accusations are contained in a series of classified documents presented to the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) which monitors the disputed Kashmir border, according to The Hindu newspaper.
The report reads, “In classified protests to a United Nations watchdog that have never been disclosed till now, Pakistan has accused Indian soldiers of involvement in the torture and decapitation of at least 12 Pakistani soldiers in cross-Line of Control raids since 1998, as well as the massacre of 29 civilians.”
The report follows a series of killings of soldiers on both sides earlier this month along the de facto border known as the LoC.
Pakistan says three of its soldiers were killed in firing by Indian troops while India accuses Pakistani troops of killing two of its soldiers on January 8, one of whom was beheaded. Pakistan has denied responsibility.
The situation along the LoC has calmed since the two armies agreed a ceasefire on January 16.
The newspaper quoted an unnamed senior Pakistani army officer stating that, “Ever since 9/11, we have sought to downplay these incidents, aware that a public backlash [could] push us into a situation we cannot afford on the LoC, given that much of our army is now committed to our western borders. Each of these incidents has been protested by us on both military and UNMOGIP channels.”
An Indian military spokesperson said the issue had “not been raised by Pakistan in communications between the two Directors-General of Military Operations.”
Published in The Express Tribune, January 31st, 2013.
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Incredible India.
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Yeah, just as Pakistan Army forces were not involved but mujahedeen in Kargil.Recommend
Oh, The Sudden Realization!
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Lol! I dont know whats more reprehensible, a country that beheads its neighbour soldiers or one that keeps quiet on 12 soldiers beheadings for fifteen years.
One more hit on Pakistans credibility
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@Mika:
why? and how?
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So these were kept a secret till now – why?
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“The Hindu” should have shown more restraint in publishing such a news which only abet the Pakistani Interest.
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First India accused Pakistan of beheading its soldiers and now Pakistan accused India of beheading its soldiers.Either India is right or wrong and either Pakistan is right or wrong no one can say surely and suuredly but the old blame game has been equal….
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Where were Pakistan Army in last 14 years…….Pakistan army not even discussed this in flag meetings and now suddenly they are coming out with this figure….what they think of world, fool………….
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Just when things were cooling down add fuel to the fire
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@vioce:
Because our backs hurt their knives.
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Yet we want India to be Pakistan’s most favorite nation!
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@theIndianTrollsOnTribune – Before coming up with your “why now?” bit, please get it through your skulls that it is one of your own newspapers which has reported this news which has then been picked up by AFP and other news organizations. FYI Pakistan govt/army still hasn’t gone to the media about this unlike Indians who have a habit of conducting international affairs through media. They (Pak army) however, have done the right thing by discussing these things regularly in bilateral army moots and have also filed complaints about it with UN observers since 1998. Tom Macaluay’s famous quote about his countrymen “We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality” also applies to Indians rather aptly.
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@theIndianTrollsOnTribune – Before coming up with your “why now?” bit, please get it through your skulls that it is one of your own newspapers which has reported this news which has then been picked up by AFP and other news organizations. FYI Pakistan govt/army still hasn’t gone to the media about this unlike Indians who have a habit of conducting international affairs through media. They (Pak army) however, have done the right thing by discussing these things regularly in bilateral army moots and have also filed complaints about it with UN observers since 1998. Tom Macaluay’s famous quote about his countrymen “We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality” also applies to Indians rather well these days.
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So in other words, this is acknowledgment that our soldiers beheaded the Indian soldier – its like saying “we did this now but you did this earlier”?
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Why Pakistan was silent all this time ? And Why raising this issue because to coverup…..??
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Why Pakistan was silent all this time ? And Why raising this issue now because to coverup…..??
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@Omar, Karachi: “So in other words, this is acknowledgment that our soldiers beheaded the Indian soldier – its like saying “we did this now but you did this earlier”?”
You are correct this is a conformation of the current beheading. As far as the fact that they were silent for 14 years, how believable is that. Similar to the Pakistani army claim that it was only mujahids and no army regulars in Kargill.
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Pakistan was stupid to have kept these atrocities quite. The price of appeasing India is more atrocities. When will Pakistan learn?
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Oh when will India learn that it cannot brow beat Pakistan. No matter how grave our internal challenges are, we will never tolerate Indian hegemony. India should just learn to live and let live and stop creating trouble in the region.
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is there anything that is not covered up in this country? Nothing that the army says (or Musharraf for that matter) can be trusted from now on.
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@TheNamelessOne: Declaring now some 15 years later about beheadings Pakistani soldiers by Indian army is a tacit acceptance of the fact that the Indians were beheaded. Pakistan which at every opportunity tries to dob in India with oultlandish claims waited because it does not want to create more problems you must live in a paradise reserved only for the naive fools. As another commentator here said “So in other words, this is acknowledgment that our soldiers beheaded the Indian soldier – its like saying “we did this now but you did this earlier”?”
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Typically Pakistani reaction. Like in another article on Mushraff, it remembered after 12 years it had won the war but for Nawaz Sheriff.
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Good. Its about time Pakistan took aggressive stance on indian atrocities and our media should support the Govt like India’s does.
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lol
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We (Pakistanis) want the final and decisive steps to be taken now to resolve Kashmir issue and to stop such these types of old blame games form both sides becaue lots of time and money have been wasted on the useless peace talks and negotiations between Pakistan and India….
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Unlike Indians, the Pakistanis do not encourage hysteria against India. They had already reported these atrocities to the UN when they occurred, and are only going public now to expose the hypocracy of Indian proteststions. Indians better get over their rabid anti-Pakistani attitudes, lest Pakistan exposes their myth of Shining India as well.
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@Behari Kebab: “Indians better get over their rabid anti-Pakistani attitudes, lest Pakistan exposes their myth of Shining India as well”.
Ummm an update for you. India Shining was a slogan used in 2004 elections y the then ruling NDA. NDA lost the elections and UPA won. Since then the India Shining slogan is dead in inda. It is only Pakistans who say this thinking that somehow in talking about India’s problems they will embararass Indians. Far from it. India’s own newspapers and media openly talk about our problems with a view to bring pressure on our government to fix the problems..
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Indian is the problem creatour in subcontinent not pakistan.
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why do not they complain for beheading since 1947??
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@Ali Khan: entire world know who is creating trouble. osama was found in pakistan itself. and dawood is getting royal treatment from pakistan.
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better feed those malnourished in pakistan than waging a war against INDIA and losing it as always.
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Barbaric Barbaric Barbaric! When Pakistan was accused of beheading some indi.
Now what do you say Indian Trolls?
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