Uri attack: Parrikar tells army to take 'firm action'

Tribune News Service

New Delhi/Srinagar, September 18

Defence minister Manohar Parrikar on Sunday night issued instructions to the Army to take a 'firm action' against those responsible for the attack on a military camp at Uri in northern part of Kashmir.

Parrikar who was in Srinagar during the day arrived back tonight.

At the meeting, Parrikar asked the Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag and senior Commanders to take action.

Later in the night, Parrikar took to micro-blogging site twitter and said, “Instructed (the Army)to take firm action against those responsible.”

Earlier, Parrikar was briefed by the army officials about the counter-operation in the wake of the Uri attack. The supreme sacrifice of 17 brave soldiers will not go in vain, he said.

Parrikar also visited the injured jawans at the hospital. He had rushed to Srinagar to take stock of the situation after four suspected Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists struck the administrative base of the army's 10 Dogra regiment at Uri in Baramulla district.

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"The Defence Minister was briefed about the Uri terror attack and the counter-operation in which the terrorists were neutralised," an army official said.

Parrikar arrived at the Chinar Corps Headquarters of the army at Badami Bagh in the evening where senior army officials briefed him, he added.

The Defence Minister also visited the 92 Base Hospital of the army where he was briefed about the condition of the injured soldiers who were undergoing treatment there.

An army spokesman said Parrikar and Chief of the Army Staff Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag visited the Valley to take stock of the operations and review the overall security situation.

"They were briefed by Northern Army and Chinar Corps Commanders Lt Gen DS Hooda and Lt Gen Satish Dua respectively at Srinagar on the Uri terror attack and the operation launched to neutralise the terrorists," he said.

The Defence Minister was briefed about the security grid along the Line of Control (LoC) and the hinterland, covering the deployment and employment of additional forces that have recently been inducted into the Valley.

The Army chief also visited Uri to get a first-hand account of the operation. There, he was briefed on the latest situation by the commanders on ground.

The Defence Minister has directed that the mortal remains of the martyrs be transported directly to their respective hometowns for which arrangements were being made, he added. — With PTI inputs