India summons Pakistani envoy

New Delhi: Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar on Wednesday summoned Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit here following Sunday’s cross-border terror attack on an army base at Uri in Jammu and Kashmir in which 18 Indian soldiers lost their lives.
According to a statement issued by the External Affairs Ministry, Basit was reminded that the Pakistan government ‘had made a solemn commitment in January 2004 to not allow its soil or territory under its control to be used for terrorism against India’.
‘The persistent and growing violation of this undertaking is a matter of very serious concern,’ the statement said.
‘The latest terrorist attack in Uri only underlines that the infrastructure of terrorism in Pakistan remains active. We demand that Pakistan lives up to its public commitment to refrain from supporting and sponsoring terrorism against India.’
India has blamed the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist outfit for the early morning attacks.
The statement said that beginning with the cross-border terror attack in January this year, there have been continuous attempts by armed terrorists to cross the LoC and International Boundary in order to carry out attacks in India.
‘Seventeen such attempts have been interdicted at or around the LoC, resulting in the elimination of 31 terrorists and preventing their intended acts of terrorism,’ it said. (IANS)