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Pak suspends trans-LoC trade New Delhi/ Jammu, January 10 New Delhi obviously does not want to do anything that would embolden the Pakistan Army, which has traditionally considered India as Enemy No 1. Top government sources today said this was not the first time such an incident had taken place along the Line of Control (LoC) between the two countries. Border skirmishes have taken place from time to time. What, however, has outraged Delhi is the brutality of the incident in which one of the two soldiers was beheaded. But India is prepared to give time to Pakistan to act against those responsible for the incident. “Instead of shouting, we should give them (Pakistan) time to take action,” sources said. The Pakistani Army on Thursday refused to allow trucks from India carrying goods to cross the Line of Control trade point in Poonch district. Trucks laden with Indian goods remained stranded near the Chakkan-da-Bagh crossing point with Indian traders complaining that they would suffer huge losses as a result of the Pakistani action. “Since cross-LoC trade is not international trade, there are certain issues which are to be sorted by mutual agreements between the two sides. The barbaric killing seems to have put Pakistan on the back foot and this could be the sole reason for Pakistan to suspend the trade with India,” sources said. “They (Pakistan) didn’t respond to our hotline messages and kept their gates closed for goods-laden trucks from this side of the LoC when our truckers headed towards crossing point after completing all formalities,” Abdul Hamid Sheikh, Custodian of the trans-LoC trade and travel told The Tribune. In New Delhi, National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon rejected Pakistan’s suggestion that the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) be asked to probe the recent ceasefire violations on the LoC.
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