India admits to death of 13 soldiers in LoC firing

NEW DELHI:  Defense Minister of India has confessed that 13 Indian soldiers were killed in exchange of firing with Pakistani troops, on the day seven Pakistani soldiers were killed. Before this statement, India did not revealed the deaths of its soldiers. 

COAS Raheel Shareef has recently said that India knows what Pakistan is capable of, because of fear India is hiding the deaths of its soldiers. After which the defense minister of India revealed the number of deceased soldiers.

Defense Minister of India said that he is highly concerned over the statement of COAS of Pakistan. 

He said that 13 of our soldiers were killed but we did not give any statement regarding any vengeance against Pakistan. He further said  that violation of ceasefire if done by Pakistani soldiers, the statement of General Raheel Sharif  is unbearable and is synonymous to war.

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