In the backdrop of Uri terrorist attack,the armies of Pakistan and India on Sunday established hotline contact, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.
According to the military’s media wing statement, the contact was established between the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of the two countries.
Refuting unfounded and pre-mature Indian allegation, Pakistani DGMO asked his counterpart to share any actionable intelligence.
He also reiterated that no infiltration is allowed from Pakistani soil because watertight arrangements are in place on both sides of Line of control (LoC) and Working Boundary all along.
The development comes after an attack on an India Army headquarters in Uri by suspected militants claimed 17 lives in India-held Kashmir (IHK) on Sunday.
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“Four terrorists killed in the counter-terrorist operation at Uri,” the army’s north command said on Twitter, referring to the Uri area, about 100 kilometres west of the troubled Kashmir region’s main city of Srinagar.
Just hours into the attack, Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh launched a scathing attack on Pakistan, calling it a “terrorist state” that should be “isolated”.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi also took to twitter to condemn the attack and said that those behind the “despicable” strike won’t go unpunished.
Kashmir has been in the grip of deadly unrest for more than two months, with protesting residents clashing almost daily with security forces, in the worst violence to hit the region since 2010.
At least 87 civilians have been killed and thousands injured in the protests against Indian rule, sparked by the killing of a popular rebel leader in a gun battle with soldiers on July 8.
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