{"id":284741,"date":"2018-01-15T17:04:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T11:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=284741"},"modified":"2018-01-15T17:04:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T11:34:20","slug":"indian-army-kills-7-pakistani-soldiers-along-loc-in-retaliatory-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indian-army-kills-7-pakistani-soldiers-along-loc-in-retaliatory-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Army kills 7 Pakistani soldiers along LoC in &#039;retaliatory action&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Army-Day-by-Shailendra.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-280163 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Army-Day-by-Shailendra-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Army Day\" width=\"374\" height=\"249\" data-id=\"280163\" \/><\/a>The Indian Army has killed seven Pakistani soldiers and injured 4 others in the forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s (J&amp;K) Poonch district on January 15.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Army&#8217;s retaliatory action comes after an Indian soldier was killed in Pakistani firing in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Rajouri district on January 13.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf we are forced, then we may resort to other action by stepping up military offensive,&#8221; said Army Chief Bipin Rawat at an event of the 70th Army Day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">General Rawat further added that the Pakistan Army had been continuously trying to help terrorists sneak into LoC in J&amp;K.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are using our might to teach them a lesson. We will keep effectively retaliating to any provocative action by Pakistan,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the Pakistan Army said in a statement that four of its soldiers were killed along the LOC in the Jandrot, Kotli sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gen Rawat asserted, &#8220;We will not let anti-India activities succeed at any cost. We will take even stronger steps against our enemies if we are compelled to do so&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan has been continuously violating ceasefire along the International Border and the LoC in J&amp;K and more than 720 cases of ceasefire has been reported in last year in comparison to 449 times in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Army has killed seven Pakistani soldiers and injured 4 others in the forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s (J&amp;K) Poonch district on January 15. The Army&#8217;s retaliatory action comes after an Indian soldier was killed in Pakistani firing in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Rajouri district on January 13. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":280163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39],"tags":[229,230,231,232,48,233,234],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}