Pakistan rejects India’s ‘mutilation of soldier’s body’ claim

The reports are a fabrication and blatant attempt to malign Pakistan, says Foreign Office

Pakistan has rejected the Indian claim that body of one of its three soldiers killed along the Line of Control (LoC) was mutilated, and termed it “false and baseless”.

Pakistan strongly rejects the false & baseless Indian media reports reg the alleged mutilation of an Indian solider on the LoC -1/5

— Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) November 22, 2016

#JKOps 3 soldiers killed in action on LC in Machhal. Body of one soldier mutilated, retribution will be heavy for this cowardly act @adgpi

— NORTHERN COMMAND - INDIAN ARMY (@NorthernComd_IA) November 22, 2016

“These reports are a fabrication and a blatant attempt to malign Pakistan,” the Foreign Office said in a statement on Tuesday.

These reports are a fabrication and a blatant attempt to malign Pakistan -2/5

— Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) November 22, 2016

“The Pakistan Army, with its professional approach, is not involved in any such unethical and non-professional activity and neither does it support any such action.”

As a professional force,Pakistan army isn't involved in any such unethical &non-professional activity & neither supports any such action 3/5

— Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) November 22, 2016

Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said Pakistan was fully prepared and ready to respond to any misadventure across the LoC, Working Boundary or International Border.

However, Pakistan is fully prepared and ready to respond to any misadventure across the LoC, WB or International Border -4/5

— Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) November 22, 2016

“The fact is that India is constantly violating the 2003 Ceasefire Understanding, targeting civilian and trying to divert the international attention from its atrocities in the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir,” the statement added.

Tensions between Pakistan and India have been running high since July when India unleashed a brutal crackdown on Kashmiris protesting against the extrajudicial killing of a prominent freedom fighter, Burhan Wani.