During a visit to the site of the devastating avalanche near Skardu in Pakistan-Occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) on April 18, 2012,which killed about 125 military personnel and 15 civilians, Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Pakistan’s Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), is reported to have made —for the first time since he took over as the COAS from Gen.Pervez Musharraf— some positive references to India.
The Pakistani media has quoted him as saying as follows: