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Indian Prime Minsiter Narendra Modi started  his diplomatic drive to isolate Pakistan at the BRICS summit where all major stakeholders including Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa and others attended the summit. Tension between the nuclear-armed neighbours has escalated since a Sept. 18 attack on an army base in held Kashmir, near the disputed frontier with Pakistan, killed 19 Indian soldiers in the worst such assault in 14 years. India later said it had carried out retaliatory “surgical strikes” across the de facto border that inflicted significant casualties. Pakistan denied any role in the attack on the Uri army base, and said the Indian operation had not even happened, dismissing it as typical cross-border firing.  “In our own region, terrorism poses a grave threat to peace, security and development,” Modi said in his remarks to BRICS leaders who met at a resort hotel in the western state of Goa. Modi’s posturing overshadowed the gathering of leaders of...

LINE OF CONTROL  (LoC) The Indian army’s becoming a claim company in carrying out ‘surgical strikes’ on the Pakistani side of the Line Control (LoC). The claim company also raises the query that, Is such a chic and precise measurements-guided action possible in a highly military cop zone? Strategic experts all giggles the Indian strategic pillars military claim of having the ability to conduct such an operation through military decision making process. On the border the de facto border line control that divides the India Kashmir and Pakistan Kashmir is around 880 kilometres long. For decades, there has been a huge concentration of India & Pakistan troops on both sides of the LoC. In recent years, India taking advantage of the 2003 ceasefire agreement has erected a fence along the LoC and of late employed the latest surveillance devices to stop any infiltration from the Pakistani side. Daily Kashmir times reported as Since the Uri attack that intensified fear, str...