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Pakistan says it will return jawans soon

Pakistan's Director General of Military Operations Major General Tauqir Zia today assured his Indian counterpart that he would expedite the return of two soldiers of the Rajput regiment, captured in the Turtuk sector on August 30.

This assurance came when DGMO Lieutenant General N C Vijh called up Maj Gen Zia on the hotline this afternoon to ask why Pakistan was delaying the return of the two soldiers, Lance Naik Ram Singh and Sepoy Bajinder Singh, who the Indian army says were part of a six-member patrol that went missing on August 29, 30 in sub-sector Haneefuddin in Turtuk, east of Kargil.

According to an army spokesman, the Pakistani DGMO said he had no idea about the whereabouts of the other four soldiers, including an officer.

After Pakistan showed a video clip of the two captured soldiers in Islamabad on Thursday, Lt Gen Vijh spoke to Maj Gen Zia and said they be returned.

Pakistan had on Friday said it would return the two men through the International Council of the Red Cross, but after that there was no news about the soldiers.

While India said the patrol could have inadvertently strayed across the Line of Control, Pakistan announced that Ram Singh and Bajinder Singh were captured in Shyok-Turtuk on August 30.

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