NEW DELHI: Indian External Affairs Ministry said yesterday that it has summoned Pakistan’s High Commissioner to register New Delhi’s protest against the repeated terror attacks in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir. In its statement the Indian Ministry said Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar summoned Pakistan’s High Commissioner Muhammad Abdul Basit to remind the latter that his government has violated its pledge made in 2004 not allow its soil or territory under its control to be used for terrorism against India, adding that “the persistent and growing violation of this undertaking is a matter of very serious concern.

“This year, beginning with the Pathankot airbase attack, there have been continuous attempts by armed terrorists to cross the Line of Control and International Boundary in order to carry out attacks in India. Seventeen such attempts have been interdicted at or around the Line of Control,” the foreign ministry said in the statement.

“If the government of Pakistan wishes to investigate these cross-border attacks, India is ready to provide finger prints and DNA samples of terrorists killed in the Uri and Poonch incidents,” it further stated. In the Uri attack, 18 Indian soldiers and four militants were killed three days back while 10 more terrorists were also killed in an operation to foil attempts to sneak into Indian territories. — KUNA