Indian Army personnel stand guard outside the army base which was attacked suspected militants in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir. PTI

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 21

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday admitted that ‘something’ obviously went wrong in Uri in Kashmir where 18 soldiers died in an attack on an Army camp on Sunday morning.Parrikar, who has visited Kashmir on Sunday, was speaking today at a function in New Delhi where he said “we will find out what went wrong and the government will take steps to ensure there is no repeat of such an incident”. “How to punish (to take a punitive action)? We will work out, but we are serious about it,” Parrikar said.The Tribune was the first to report about the obvious gaps that could have led to the attacks.Two news reports on September 19 and September 20 in the newspaper had listed out the possible gaps.Parrikar said “India needs to ensure the errors are not repeated”.The Defence Minister said if required there can be a “knee-jerk reaction” to the attack that New Delhi says was carried out by terrorists from Pakistan.“India is a responsible power, but that doesn’t mean I will sleep over terrorists sneaking into the country,” Parrikar said even as India moved to diplomatically isolate Pakistan as part of retaliation to the militant attack.When asked about the perceived nuclear threat from Pakistan, Parrikar said: “Empty vessels make more noise, the stronger man doesn’t argue much.”Heavily armed terrorist attacked the army base in northern Kashmir’s Uri early Sunday and killed 18 soldiers. The dawn raid surprised soldiers in their sleep as attackers lobbed grenades and set a building on fire.