KNZ NEWS DESK
New Delhi: Army Chief General Bipin Rawat has said that Pakistan will pay “sooner rather than later” for the recent attack on an Army camp at Sunjuwan in Jammu and Kashmir. In the suicide attack at the Sunjuwan military station in Jammu earlier this month, six soldiers were killed while a civilian, the father of one of the soldiers, also lost his life. The suicide attack was carried out by Jaish-e-Mohammed three attackers were also gunned down in the attack. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who had surveyed the camp after the attack, had stated that Pakistan would pay for its “misadventure”.
Speaking to the Hindustan Times, the Army Chief said the force would give a befitting reply to Pakistan for the Sunjuwan attack and that several options, including surgical strikes, were on the table. He, however, revealed no further details.
Sitharaman had warned after visiting the Sunjuwan camp that Pakistan was trying to expand its “arc of terror” from Kashmir to Jammu region. She said Pakistan was assisting infiltration of militants into India by violating ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC). “Pakistan is expanding the arc of terror to the areas south of Pir Panjal Range (Jammu region) and resorting to ceasefire violations to assist infiltration. These are being responded appropriately,” Sitharaman had told reporters.
She had further said that the terrorists, who carried out the attack at the Sunjuwan camp, were Pakistanis and warned that Islamabad will pay a price for the terror attack. “Pakistan will have to pay for this misadventure,” Sitharaman said. The deaths of “our soldiers won’t go in vain”, she added. “The attackers belonged to JeM, sponsored by Masood Azhar residing in Pakistan and deriving support from therein,” she said.
Three heavily armed militants had stormed the Sunjuwan Army camp on February 10 morning and entered the residential quarters of junior commissioned officers, spraying bullets and hurling bombs. The operation was called off two days later after the three attackers were killed. A fourth one may have been a guide and didn’t enter the military base.
