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Believe there is need for one more surgical strike across LoC, says Indian Army Chief

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Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat on Monday said he believed in the need for another surgical strike on ‘terror launch pads’ across the Line of Control, PTI reported.

Upon being inquired whether there is a need for one more surgical strike, Rawat agreed.

“I believe there is a need for one more action (surgical strike). But I would not want to disclose how we want to do it,” he said in an interview to India Today news channel that was telecast on Monday.

In 2016, the Indian Army had conducted surgical strikes across the Line of Control on September 29.

Earlier, on Sunday, Rawat agreed with the government of India’s decision to call off dialogue with Pakistan, saying that ‘talks and terror’ could not ‘go together’.

After India called off talks with Pakistan citing killing of a BSF personnel, killing of cops in Kashmir and ‘glorifying’ Burhan Wani by issuing postage stamps, Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan called the move ‘arrogant and disappointing.’

In a statement issued by the Pakistan Foreign Office said that the reasons cited by the Indian side for the decision to cancel the foreign ministers’ meeting, within 24 hours of its public confirmation, are entirely unconvincing. 

Moreover India had also said that Pakistan has issued stamps glorifying slain Hizb commander Burhan Wani.

PDP President and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday reacting to the killings of policemen said that Government of India’s ‘muscular policy’ is clearly not working in the valley.

She also added that dialogue now seems to be a ‘distant dream’.

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