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India will deal with Pak's Kashmir forays 'proactively', says Advani

India has decided that any ''further misadventures'' by Pakistan on Indian territory shall be dealt with in a ''proactive manner'', Home Minister L K Advani said today.

He said the decision was taken at a meeting convened by the home ministry on Jammu and Kashmir on Monday.

In a statement, the home minister expressed surprise over ''angry outbursts'' in Pakistan over his statement in the context of Jammu and Kashmir.

''The New Delhi meeting held out no threats. But it did make a resolve and that was that we shall quell the proxy war Pakistan and its agencies have unleashed on the nation for the past few years,'' Advani said.

He said the whole world knew the details of Pakistan's Operation TopaC, which was finalised in April 1988. In the last eight years, in Kashmir alone, over 7,975 civilians had been killed. The casualties for Indian security forces were 1,600. In all, 15,000 lives had been lost. The number of injured, dispossessed and displaced was much more.

UNI

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