India may be forced to act: Army Chief

NEW DELHI: Indian Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor has indicated that India is losing patience over frequent cease-fire violations by Pakistan along the Line of Control and warned that at some stage it would have to retaliate. General Kapoor also claimed that reports about Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal needed to be confirmed and after that New Delhi could think about reviewing its own nuclear strategy.Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a function, General Kapoor said that firing across the LoC was part of the Pakistan army’s tactics to push infiltrators through. His comments followed a recent cease-fire violation in the Punchh sector in which an Indian soldier was killed.General Kapoor said India would be forced to take action if cease-fire violations were not checked.General Kapoor, who recently said that Pakistan’s nuclear assets had surpassed the limits of deterrence, said reports about Islamabad’s capabilities needed to be verified. The nuclear rhetoric between India and Pakistan has gone up in recent weeks.There has been talk among Indian nuclear scientists that it might need another test to validate the thermonuclear device, despite the fact that A P J Kalam claimed the test of the hydrogen bomb in 1998 was a success.