“Whenever ceasefire violations take place our soldiers give appropriate response at the border,” he told reporters. File photo.
Indian troops are giving appropriate response whenever Pakistan violates the ceasefire along the border, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday.
“Whenever ceasefire violations take place our soldiers give appropriate response at the border,” he told reporters.
The Minister was asked about the continuing ceasefire violations on the sidelines of a conference of Tourism Ministers. There have been 11 ceasefire violation in the past ten days along the Indo-Pak border by Pakistani troops and 13 such violations during this month.
India had called off the talks between Foreign Secretaries of the countries slated for August 25.
Earlier, Minister of State in the PMO Jitendra Singh said any signal by Pakistan that it is directly or indirectly encouraging separatism would not only adversely affect India but also boomerang on it.
- LoC tensions in August
- 18th August:
Pakistani troops resort to heavy mortar shelling and fire with automatic weapons at 20 Border Out Posts in Jammu sector; villager injured
- 17th August:
After a two-day lull, Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire twice on Sunday by resorting to heavy firing with automatic and small arms along International Border and Line of Control in Jammu.
- 16th August:
Two Border Security Force personnel were killed and four others wounded when militants attacked their vehicle in the Quail area of Pulwama
- 14th August:
Pakistani troops fired at forward Indian posts along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district.
- 11th August:
Two troopers and two women injured in unprovoked firing by the Pakistan Rangers at four Indian positions on the international border in Jammu district Firing at the Johra Post, Nowa Pind, Jogna Chak and Tent Post at around 4.15 am.
- 8th August:
Pakistani troops target Indian forward posts with small arms and automatic weapons along the LoC at Bhimbher Gali sub-sector in > Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir at 10.30 pm. The Indian Army troops responded with equal calibre weapons to Pakistan’s firing which resulted in intermittent exchanges of fire.
- 5th August
Pakistani troops targeted Indian forward posts along the LoC in Sher Shakti forward belt of Poonch district.
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