Defence expert Major General (Retired) SR Sinho on Sunday blamed Pakistan for launching proxy war against India and said Islamabad is irritated because of the Balochistan issue.
Sinho said it is time that India should take an absolutely practical approach. “This indicates that the proxy war has been launched by the Pakistanis because now they are getting irritated due to the Balochistan issue. Pakistan Prime Minister is facing a corruption attack from his Government on Panama leak. So, Pakistan is indulging in these activities. Pakistan is not going to stop these kinds of activities. They have done it earlier also,” he added.
Sinho further said the Government of India has to now react and not prolong this proxy war as far as Pakistan is concerned. "The security forces can only act on their own limits at this side of the border and they have got no other option except using the maximum force. But the time has come because the Pakistan is sending the terrorists across the border in our territory. The Government has to now react and I think we should not prolong this proxy war as far the Pakistanis are concerned," he added.
Notably, 17 Army soldiers being killed in a major encounter with terrorists in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday morning. In a statement, the Army said that a group of heavily armed terrorists targeted the rear administrative base of a unit at Uri, and in the counter action, four terrorists have been eliminated and combing operations are in progress.