The defence ministry spokesman said that a little before midnight on October 29, the sentry at post Fateh 5770, saw movement close to the post. He alerted soldiers of a parachute battalion deployed there and a fierce encounter ensued. The spokesman said that the Army not only repulsed the Pakistani attack but also killed at least two of their soldiers.

This was the third attack by Pakistan on the Indian posts at the glacier in the past two weeks. Only yesterday General VP Malik, Chief of the Army Staff wrote a letter to Major General HS Mangat, Colonel of the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (JAK LI) Regiment congratulating his jawans of the 12th Battalion for successfully repulsing two Pakistani attacks during the last two weeks.

Thespokesman said that on October 27 Naik Bashrat Hussain of 12 JAK LI while on sentry duty saw Pakistani troops infiltrating into the Indian territory. He rushed back to his post and alerted fellow soldiers who quickly formed a barrier and repulsed the raider attack and inflicted heavy casualties on them. Even earlier on the night of October 18, an attack by the raiders was repulsed by the JAK LI troops.

The defence ministry spokesman said that the JAK LI draws its men from the state of Jammu and Kashmir and particularly from the valley. Recalling the role of the JAK LI at the glacier, the spokesman said that it was the legendary junior commissioned officer (JCO) Bana Singh from the JAK LI who led a team to capture the important Pakistan Army's Quaide post, which the Indian Army subsequently renamed as Bana post.

The spokesman also said that the JAK LI was raised in 1947-48 as a local volunteer force to fight Pakistani raiders under leadership of Sheikh Abdullah and became a regular regiment of the Armyafter its heroic performance during the 1971 war.