Top general says India pounding Pak posts to cause casualties

August 20, 2015 10:04

Hindustan Times reports: A top army officer said on Wednesday the Indian Army was pounding Pakistani positions along the Line of Control (LoC) with explosives to cause enemy casualties in retaliation to ceasefire violations by the neighbour.

Days ahead of the NSA-level talks on August 23-24, Nagrota-based 16 Corps commander Lieutenant General RR Nimbhorkar told Hindustan Times: "Our job is to make them suffer casualties, otherwise they will merrily escalate hostilities. We are responding with overwhelming firepower to stop them in their tracks."

He said Pakistan-provoked military escalation in the Jammu region had spread fighting to a 114-km expanse of the LOC and forced the Indian Army to adopt a muscular stance.

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