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| India to oppose UNMOG probe in ceasefire violation incidents | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan11: Despite the fact that India had since 1972 stopped recognizing any role for the United Nations Military Observers Group (UNMOG) in Jammu and Kashmir, Islamabad has tried to highlight the Kashmir issue on an international level by seeking UN probe into the latest ceasefire violations.
The UNMOG had been set up in J&K in 1949 to oversee any incident of ceasefire violations and ensure that the sanctity of the line dividing the two countries was maintained. But after the two sides signed the Shimla agreement in 1972 in which the two sides opposed any third party mediation on the plea that the Kashmir issue was a bilateral problem India had stopped recognizing any role for the UNMOG.
Also during the last 25 years the officials of the UNMOG neither took cognizance of repeated infiltration of militants nor of the intermittent ceasefire violations. It is in this context too that India had stopped referring any incident of ceasefire violations to the UNMOG.
Pakistan has knocked the doors of the UN for directing the UNMOG officials to probe into the latest ceasefire violations allegedly by the Indian troops.
The UN observer force in Kashmir will probe a Pakistani complaint of alleged ceasefire violation by Indian soldiers along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir in which it claims a Pakistani soldier was killed.
Pakistan has complained to the UNMOG in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) about the January 6 incident in which it claimed that Indian troops "raided" a border post on the Pakistani side of the LoC.
India has denied crossing the international border and said that the Pakistan army started firing mortar shells towards its posts with some of the shells landing close to civilian habitation.
India has said that Pakistani troops commenced "unprovoked firing on Indian troops" in the early hours of January 6.
A civilian house was damaged in the firing and Indian troops then undertook "controlled retaliation" in response. Pakistan has claimed that the incident resulted in the death of a Pakistani soldier and injuries to another.
The UNMOGIP said it will soon conduct an investigation into the incident.
India has rejected Pak plea for a UN probe into the ceasefire violations because a probe has to be held first about the bizarre role the Pak soldiers played in Mendhar sector by killing two Indian soldiers.
New Delhi believes that Islamabad by seeking UN probe into the ceasefire violations wanted to bring the Kashmir issue in the world focus. And accordingly New Delhi has decided not to cooperate with any UN agency in the inquiry. |
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