While Pakistan is trying to deny its hand in the recent Uri attack, it seems like their role in supporting terrorists is an open secret back home.  Pakistan's Chief Justice recently revealed that political parties in the country are endorsing terrorism. Speaking at a ceremony in Islamabad on Monday, Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali slammed political parties for endorsing terrorism, confirming what India and a major part of the international committee has been saying for a while. Justice Jamali was quoted saying by Geo News: “It is disappointing to see some political parties supporting terrorists for their own interest.” He also added that courts were being attacked by terrorists to ‘instil fear among lawyers and judges’. He also added that Jinnah didn’t want to make Pakistan secular: “The constitution allows all faiths to practice their religion without fear of being persecuted.”

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India plans multi layered response to Uri attack

Determined to use a calibrated, multi-layered and strategic response to Uri attack, India is likely to expose Pakistan before the world community by furnishing it with actionable evidence regarding its sponsoring of terrorism and press for isolating the nation.India is also planning to hand over to Pakistan evidence of the four terrorists using Pakistani-marked weapons, food, energy drinks and GPS trackers which they carried to enter Jammu and Kashmir from across the Line of Control.Indications in this regard came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a nearly two-hour meeting with Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, NSA Ajit Doval, Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag and other top officials to discuss India's response.Top brass of the government is convinced that India has to launch a calibrated, multi-layered and strategic response and expose Pakistan in international forums like the UN, whose General Assembly is in session, official sources said.As part of the plans, the Director General of Military Operations will hand over all the evidence linking Pakistan's involvement in Uri attack to his Pakistani counterpart shortly.At the meeting where External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was conspicuously absent, the top security brass briefed the Prime Minister on the prevailing ground situation in Kashmir Valley in the wake of the terror attack at a Brigade Headquarters in Uri, the sources said.The Defence Minister and the Army Chief, who visited Kashmir after the terror attack yesterday, also apprised the Prime Minister about their observations, they said.Heavily-armed terrorists, believed to be from Pakistan-based JeM, had yesterday stormed an army base in Uri in Kashmir, killing 18 jawans.India has reacted strongly to the deadliest attack on the Army in Jammu and Kashmir in a quarter-century-old insurgency that sparked an outrage with the Prime Minister strongly condemning it. 

 Gen Sharif meets top commanders after India’s ‘hostile narrative’

Pakistan Army chief Gen Raheel Sharif met his top commanders and said the military was "watchful" towards the security imperatives of the country in the wake of "hostile narrative" by India after terrorists killed 18 Indian soldiers in Kashmir.

The Corps Commanders' Conference - held in Rawalpindi and chaired by Gen Sharif - reviewed external and internal security situation and operational preparedness of the army, the army said in a statement.

"Taking note of a hostile narrative being propagated by India, COAS (Gen Sharif) said that we are fully cognizant and closely watching the latest happenings in the region and their impact on the security of Pakistan," the statement said.

"Armed forces of Pakistan are fully prepared to respond to entire spectrum of direct and indirect threat," he said, expressing his satisfaction over operational preparedness of the army.

"Pakistan's armed forces together with our resilient nation have surmounted every challenge and will thwart any sinister design against integrity and sovereignty of Pakistan in future as well," Gen Sharif said during the meeting.

Heavily-armed militants stormed a battalion headquarters of the Indian Army in North Kashmir's Uri town in the wee hours yesterday, killing 18 jawans and injuring 19 others in the attack in which all four terrorists were neutralised.

It was the worst attack on the Indian Army in many years.

India's DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singh has said all the four killed militants were foreign terrorists and had carried with them items which had Pakistani markings and that initial reports indicated that they belonged to Pakistan-based Jaish-E-Mohammed terrorist group.

Pak writes to heads of China, France, Russia, UK and US over Kashmir

Ahead of his address to the UN General Assembly, Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has written to the permanent members of the Security Council over the Kashmir issue saying it is a "constant source of tension and instability" posing a threat to world peace and security. Sharif has written to the Heads of Government/State of China, France, Russia, the UK and the US regarding "grave human rights violations" in Kashmir, Foreign Office (FO) said today. "The letters emphasise the extremely negative implications of the dire situation in Kashmir, on regional, as well as international peace and security," it said in a statement.

Sharif wrote the "non-resolution of the Kashmir issue is a constant source of tension and instability in the region and a threat to international peace and security". Last week, Sharif met Hurriyat leaders from Pakistan- occupied Kashmir (PoK) and had assured them that he would "emphatically highlight" the Kashmir issue at the 71st session of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday. Highlighting the 'violations' of international human rights and humanitarian laws in Kashmir, Sharif in his letters asked the permanent members of the Security Council to fulfill their responsibility with regard to the Kashmir issue, which he said is one of the oldest internationally recognised unresolved disputes on the agenda of the UNSC.

Despite the passage of more than 68 years since the adoption of multiple resolutions, the people of Jammu and Kashmir still await the implementation of these resolutions which promised them the right to self-determination to be exercised through a free and impartial plebiscite under the UN auspices, he wrote. Sharif urged the permanent members of the Security Council to call upon the Indian government to immediately stop the bloodshed in Jammu and Kashmir and honour its human rights obligations as well as its commitments to the Kashmiri people.

  With inputs from agencies