LoC beheadings: Modi should re-engage with Pak, not opt for rash reactions

Events along LoC underscore the need to engage with Pakistan

The shameful beheading of two Indian soldiers by Pakistan’s border action team near the Line of Control (LoC) on Monday has justifiably flared tempers on the Indian side. The government has asserted that India has sufficient evidence to prove that the Pakistan army crossed the LoC at the Krishna Ghati sector and committed this “heinous act”. Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar, too, conveyed India’s outrage to Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit, though the Pakistani establishment has denied the involvement of its army. Predictably, there is growing clamour within India, across the Treasury and Opposition benches, for the army to retaliate with