India, Pak NSAs speak over phone to diffuse tension

Islamabad: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and his Pakistani counterpart Nasser Janjua spoke to each other in the wake of the escalating tension on the border following India’s surgical strike, media reports said here today. The two NSAs spoke to diffuse tension, News International quoted Sartaj Aziz, Adviser to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, as saying. During the conversation between the two NSAs, there was stress on the need to establish contact to reduce tension along the LoC, Mr Aziz said, according to the newspaper.

Mr Aziz also said that tension on the border would remain unless the issue of Kashmir was resolved. The tension between the two countries further escalated after the fresh strike by militant, this time in Baramulla. Earlier, the terrorists had struck at the Army base camp in Uri, killing 19 Indian soldiers, to avenge which India had carried out surgical strikes across the LoC in PoK on the night of September 28-28 causing heavy losses to terrorists. (UNI)