JK Cong condemns Pak shelling, calls for befitting response

The Jammu and Kashmir Congress today strongly condemned Pakistan for unprovoked shelling along the International Border (IB) here and called for a befitting response.

Unless a befitting response is given to Pakistan for its highly provocative and treacherous activities along the borders, and in Kashmir, our innocent people cannot be secure and live in peace, Pradesh Congress Committee chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma said in a statement here.

He said it was time Pakistan is dealt in the manner and the language it understands in order to check the killings of innocent civilians and security personnel on the borders.

There is a lot of anger amongst the people especially in the border belt over the hollow rhetoric and direction-less policies of the Narendra Modi government towards Pakistan and Kashmir, he said.

The Congress claimed the situation in Kashmir is quite alarming and the state government has totally failed and surrendered to the situation, while the Centre is clueless and groping in the dark.

Two BSF personnel, including an officer, were killed and 14 persons, mostly civilians, injured in heavy shelling from across the border in Akhnoor, Kanachak and Khour sectors today.