However, a series of official meetings indicated that the LoC mission by the Indian Army was being taken far more seriously than the government and military would admit. “No one will be allowed to cast an evil eye on Pakistan,” Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said, in an obvious reference to India during a Cabinet meeting convened hurriedly to review the LoC violence.

Next Wednesday, the Pakistani government has convened a special joint session of Parliament, which will be preceded by a National Security Committee meeting on Tuesday, for which Mr. Sharif has extended a special invitation to all the chief ministers to speak about the LoC situation.

“No one will be allowed to cast an evil eye on Pakistan,” Mr. Sharif said, in an obvious reference to India, during a Cabinet meeting convened hurriedly to review the LoC violence.