Describing "as cruel" the beheading of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops, ex-soldiers' forum staged a dharna in Ghaziabad and demanded government should declare Pakistan an "enemy nation".

Ex-soldiers staged a dharna before the Collectorate office and gave a memorandum to district magistrate in this regard.

"It is cruel. Indian government should have taken a befitting reply in the matter but it hadn't taken any step till now," morcha leader BC Bansal said in a memorandum addressed to President Pranab Mukherjee.

"Severe all relations with Pakistan and declare it an enemy nation," chief of ex-women soldiers' brigade Veenu Choudhary said.