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PM Modi meets President Mukherjee to brief him about the Uri terror attack: As it happened

National Investigation Agency Team On Monday Arrived At The Site Of Uri Terror Attack To Conduct Probe Into The Terror Strike Which Left At Least 18 Soldiers Dead On Sunday. In Response To The Attack, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu Called Upon The World Leaders To Come Together To Declare Pakistan A Terrorist State And Stop Giving It Military And Other Aid.

Agencies | Updated on: 19 Sep 2016, 08:07:33 PM

New Delhi:

National Investigation Agency team on Monday arrived at the site of Uri terror attack to conduct probe into the terror strike which left at least 18 soldiers dead on Sunday. In response to the attack, Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu called upon the world leaders to come together to declare Pakistan a terrorist state and stop giving it military and other aid.

Naidu also pitched for punishing the perpetrators of the brazen assault on the army base in Uri in Kashmir.

India will have to respond and punish the perpetrators of the terrorist attack and “can no more take it lying down”, he said.

“The world community should come together to isolate Pakistan, declare it a terrorist state and stop giving it military and all other assistance.

“The UN should take it up in a serious manner as terrorism is the enemy of humanity,” the Union Information and Broadcasting Minister told reporters on the sidelines of an event at Gannavaram near Vijaywada. 

“Pakistan is training, abetting and funding terrorists who want to cripple India’s economy. They want to weaken our country. This is not acceptable at all. India is running out of patience. It was high time we taught a lesson to Pakistan,” he said.

“They (Pakistan) are not walking the talk. Whatever they had promised during the period of Gen Pervez Musharraf...Atal Bihari Vajpayee...they are going back on that. And now you cannot take it lying down.

India had reacted strongly to the deadliest attack on the Army in Jammu and Kashmir in a quarter-century-old insurgency that sparked an outrage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi strongly condemning it.

As it happened: 

#Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets President Pranab Mukherjee over Uri terror attack.

#We reserve the right to respond to any act of the adversary at the time and place of our own choosing: DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singh

#We have the desired capability to reply to such blatant act of violence in a manner as deemed appropriate by us: DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singh

#Of a total of 110 terrorists killed during various operations this year, 31 were killed while they were attempting to cross the LoC: DGMO

#During 2016, there have been a total of 17 infiltration bids across the LoC, which have been sucessfully eliminated by Indian Army: DGMO

#Recoveries include, large quantity of food and medicine packets, having markings of Pakistan: DGMO on Uri operation

#Recoveries also include 39 under barrel grenade launcher grenades, 5 hand grenades, 2 radio sets, 2 global positioning systems, 2 map sheets, 2 metric sheets...that they use when they move from one place to another as guidance points, also recovered: DGMO

#Infiltration bids have increased this year in comparison to the last 3 to 4 years: DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singh

#Operation has been called off this evening, complete area has been cleared: DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singh on Uri terror attack. 

#National Investigation Agency (NIA) team arrives at the site of Uri terror attack

#Indian Army to hold a press conference at 5:30 pm in New Delhi

Earlier in the day, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said that India will carefully decide its future course of action in the aftermath of the terror attack in Uri and will not do anything on the basis of what Pakistan says.

“We must not pay heed to Pakistan’s reaction. Everything is in front of the people. We will take our next steps carefully. It does not matter what Pakistan says,” he told reporters in New Delhi.

The Minister of State for Home’s comments came a day after heavily armed militants suspected to be from Pakistan-based JeM stormed an army base in Uri in Kashmir, killing 18 jawans.

Also read: India to take future course of action regarding Uri attacks independently of Pakistan, says Rijiju on Uri

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting attended by top ministers and other officials over the deadly terror attack in Uri. 

Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag besides other senior officials attended the meeting.

The top security brass briefed the Prime Minister on the prevailing ground situation in Kashmir Valley in the wake of the terror attack at a Brigade Headquarters in Uri in which 18 soldiers were killed, official sources said. The Defence Minister and the Army Chief had visited Kashmir after the terror attack on Sunday.

Also read: Here is how events in Uri attack unfolded

 Meanwhile, Sepoy K Vikas Janardhan, who was airlifted to the Army Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi after being critically injured in the Uri attack, succumbed to injuries on Monday, raising the toll in the terror strike to 18.

Also read: Death toll rises to 18 as soldier succumbs to his injuries

Two other critically injured soldiers have also been airlifted to the military hospital situated in Delhi.

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First Published : 19 Sep 2016, 04:16:00 PM

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