Pak attack on Indian post does no help to normalise ties: Omar Abdullah

Was briefed early this morning about news that 5 of our soldiers had been killed on the LOC. My heartfelt condolences to their next of kin.

— Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) August 6,2013

These incidents don't help efforts to normalise or even improve relations with Pak & call in to question the Pak Govt's recent overtures.

— Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) August 6,2013

Pakistani troops attacked an Indian post along the Line of Control in the Poonch sector late last night,killing five Indian soldiers. Defence sources today said the Pakistani soldiers intruded into the Indian territory past midnight and ambushed the Sarla post on the Indian side of the LoC.

Peace between the two neighbouring states have been elusive and fragile since 1947 and the violence has escalated in recent times,both sides deploying attacks at various times through the past year,after a relative period of calm on the volatile northern border.

Abdullah also said that incidents of this kind will definitely not have a soothing effect on the rising hostility,and called into question the value of the overtures made by the new Pakistani government.

In an encounter in January,India had accused Pakistani soldiers of beheading two of its soldiers,while a Pakistani soldier and several militants have been gunned down by Indian soldiers on the Indian side of the LoC in the preceding months.