'Indian blood doesn't come cheap, Pak will pay': GD Bakshi on Kulgam

Major General (Retired) GD Bakshi lashed out at Pakistan and its sponsored terrorists for the Kulgam attack that claimed six lives on Tuesday. "The fact of the matter is every time any foreign dignitary visits Kashmir, be it (former US) President Clinton or President Bush, if they visit India, Pakistan tries its best to coincide them with some mass casualty terrorist attack to slaughter civilians and this is precisely what they have done," said GD Bakshi. He added, "Those poor labourers from West Bengal who had come to help the Kashmiris harvest their apples - they have been lined up and shot to death."

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"Muslims have been killed, this is just to show that things are not normal in Kashmir. Well yes, such incidents cannot always be prevented but we can make sure that the group which has committed this atrocity is hunted down and eliminated. We will make sure to make people across the border to pay a price for such killing of Indian citizens. Indian blood doesn't come cheap and Pakistan will have to pay for it," he further added.

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Maj Gen GB Bakshi asserted that Pakistan has launched a vicious information war against India at the international, regional and local level and India is duty-bound to counter it. "Pakistan's narrative is that there is a complete lockdown in Kashmir, that there is a curfew and no normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir. All this is false propaganda and the only way you can dismiss this is by sending a foreign delegation to go and see things for themselves. Now the argument that foreign dignitaries are allowed while Indian parliamentarians aren't, doesn't stand scrutiny. Let me tell you unequivocally that it is the Indian parliament that has brought the amendment by a great majority."

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Kulgam Terror Attack

Pakistan-based terror outfits had attacked six labourers working at a construction site in Kulgam killing five and injuring one of them. The injured, identified as Zahoor u Din, was rushed to District Hospital in Anantnag where he succumbed to injuries on Wednesday. The CRPF identified the five dead as Sheikh Kamrudin, Sheikh Mohd Rafiq, Sheikh Murnsulin, Sheikh Nizam u Din, Mohd Rafiq Sheikh. The search for the terrorists is still underway. All the victims hail from West Bengal's Murshidabad district, the police said. The attack happened on the day a delegation of parliamentarians from the European Union were visiting Kashmir to get a first-hand experience of life for locals after the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370 of the Constitution in early August.

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