Shelling and firing from across the Line of Control has cost 16 lives and 59 people have been injured he said.
New Delhi:Pakistan's claims that India had targetted its religious sites were shot down by the foreign ministry today, with a sharp reminder -- that it was Pakistani shelling from across the Line of Control that has destroyed a Gurdwara and killed several Sikhs in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch.
"These claims are completely false again. Pakistan is misusing religious sites to radicalise and indoctrinate terrorists," said foreign secretary Vikram Misri. Yesterday, Pakistan launched "targeted attacks on Sikhs, a gurdwara in Poonch, in which three people were killed," he pointed out.
Altogether, shelling and firing from across the Line of Control has cost 16 lives and 59 people have been injured he said.
Operation Sindoor, the government and army has repeatedly underscored, was non-escalatory, precise, controlled and measured, in which terror bases across 9 places in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir have been destroyed.
Mr Misri also said that the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam was the "original escalation" by Pakistan, to which India has responded.
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