{"id":309851,"date":"2019-02-27T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309851"},"modified":"2019-02-27T15:05:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T15:05:24","slug":"pakistan-demarched-on-the-act-of-aggression-against-india-mea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistan-demarched-on-the-act-of-aggression-against-india-mea\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan demarched on the act of aggression against India: MEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309852 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Raveesh-kumar-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Raveesh-kumar-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/Raveesh-kumar.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in a statement released on Wednesday said, &#8220;in contrast to India\u2019s non-military anti-terror pre-emptive strike at a JeM terrorist camp in Balakot on February 26. It is unfortunate that instead of fulfilling its international obligation and bilateral commitment to take credible action against terrorist entities and individuals operating from its soil, Pakistan has acted with aggression against India.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMoreover, India strongly objected to Pakistan\u2019s vulgar display of injured personnel of the Indian Air Force in violation of all norms of International Humanitarian Law and the Geneva Convention. It was made clear that Pakistan would be well advised to ensure that no harm comes to the Indian defence personnel in its custody. India also expects his immediate and safe return,\u201d the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRegret was expressed at continuing denial by Pakistan\u2019s political and military leadership at the presence of terrorist infrastructure in territories under its control. A dossier was handed over to Pakistan side with specific details of JeM complicity in Pulwama terror attack and the presence of JeM terror camps and its leadership in Pakistan. It was conveyed that India expects Pakistan to take immediate and verifiable action against terrorism emanating from territories under its control,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It was clearly conveyed that India reserves the right to take firm and decisive action to protect its national security, sovereignty and territorial integrity against any act of aggression or cross-border terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier today, the Acting High Commissioner of Pakistan was summoned by MEA to lodge a strong protest at the unprovoked act of aggression by Pakistan against India including by violation of the Indian air space by Pakistan Air Force and targeting of Indian military posts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in a statement released on Wednesday said, &#8220;in contrast to India\u2019s non-military anti-terror pre-emptive strike at a JeM terrorist camp in Balakot on February 26. It is unfortunate that instead of fulfilling its international obligation and bilateral commitment to take credible action against terrorist entities and individuals operating from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309851"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309855,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309851\/revisions\/309855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}