Pakistan violates ceasefire for third successive day

October 03, 2014 07:21 pm | Updated December 04, 2021 11:26 pm IST - Jammu

In this file photo, jawans patrol near the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistani troops targeted Indian Forward Posts along the LoC in Poonch district for the third successive day on Friday.

In this file photo, jawans patrol near the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistani troops targeted Indian Forward Posts along the LoC in Poonch district for the third successive day on Friday.

Pakistani troops targeted Indian Forward Posts along the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir for the third successive day on Friday, drawing retaliation from Indian troops.

“There was a ceasefire violation by Pakistani troops in Poonch sector. Pakistani troops resorted to small arms and mortar shelling along LoC in Sabjian around 1400 hours today,” a senior Army officer said.

Indian troops effectively retaliated resulting in exchanges of gun fire which continued till 3.30 p.m. on Friday, he said. No one was injured when the last reports came.

This is the fourth ceasefire violation in the past three days. There were three ceasefire violations in Sabjian and Mandi sub-sectors in Poonch and one in Forward Area in Kashmir Valley on October 1, 2014.

Pakistani troops resorted to heavy firing by small arms and automatic weapons and shelling of 81 mm mortar bombs in two forward sub-sector of Sabjian and Mandi along LoC in Poonch district on the intervening night of October 1 and 2.

They also >targeted civilians living in border hamlets of Gigriyal and Uripura along LoC, police officials said.

Six persons including two women were injured in the attack.

This month’s ceasefire violations came after a gap of one month and four days along India-Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir.

Pakistan Rangers had resorted to unprovoked firing by automatic machine guns on the intervening night of August 26 and 27 on Indian BOPs located in Pragwal area of Akhnoor tehsil of Jammu.

In a bid to defuse border tension triggered by 45 days of firing and shelling by Pakistani troops, the longest since 1971 war, India and Pakistan on August 29 held a crucial Sector Commander (DIG-Brigadier) level flag meeting on Octerio BoP in R.S. Pura sector to decide to maintain peace and tranquillity by silencing guns.

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