JAMMU: A Border Security Force (BSF) jawan was hacked to death by Pakistani forces along the international border near Jammu, PTI quoted an official as saying on Wednesday.
According to the official, the shocking incident took place on Tuesday. The identity of the slain BSF jawan has not been revealed as yet. It is also not clear as to how the slain jawan was trapped by the Pakistani forces.
Interestingly, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had on Monday said that the heads of Pakistani soldiers are being cut-off, but they are not being displayed.
“Kaat to Rahe Hain, Display Nahin Kar Rahen (heads are being cut off, but are not being displayed),” she said.
Sitharaman made these remarks during an interview to a television news channel.
Pointing that during election campaigns for 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had said that if Pakistan cut off heads of two Indian soldiers, India in retaliation would behead 10 Pakistani rangers, the interviewer asked, “During election campaigns, it was being said that if they (Pakistan) cut off heads of two Indian soldiers, we will behead heads of 10. Is it really happening?”
To which, Sitharaman said that the neighbouring country was once taught a lesson in 2016 when Indian Army carried out a surgical strike on terrorist launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan.
The terrorists are not allowed to infiltrate into the country. They are being eliminated right at the borders, she added.
However, this is not the first time that the Pakistani forces had given an ”inhuman and barbaric treatment” to the Indian soldiers.
Last year, the Pakistani forces had killed two Indian soldiers and mutilated their bodies after a targeted attack on frontier posts in Jammu and Kashmir – an act which was described as ”despicable” by the Indian Army.
The slain soldiers were identified as Naib Subedar Paramjit Singh, a junior commissioned officer (JCO) with the Army’s 22 Sikh Regiment, and Head Constable Prem Sagar of the BSF’s 200 Battalion.
The 42-year-old Singh was from a village in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district, while Sagar was a native of Deoria in Uttar Pradesh.
The Government of India strongly condemned the barbaric act and said the country has full confidence and faith in its armed forces, which will react appropriately.
“This is a reprehensible and an inhuman act. Such attacks don’t happen even during a war, let alone peace … The sacrifice of these soldiers will not go in vain,” Union Minister Arun Jaitley had said then.
Source: Zee News