August 26, 2014 10:00 am | Updated December 04, 2021 11:26 pm IST - United Nations
The United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has asked India and Pakistan to resolve their issues peacefully and >through dialogue , against the backdrop of cancellation of foreign-secretary level talks between the two nations and continued ceasefire violations by Pakistan along border posts.
“The Secretary-General calls on both sides to solve the issues peacefully and through dialogue,” according to a statement given to PTI from the office of Mr. Ban’s spokesperson in response to questions about the cancellation of the talks and ceasefire violations.
The statement did not respond to a question whether the U.N. chief would intervene in the tensed situation and encourage the leaders from the two countries to meet.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government >cancelled the August 25 meeting scheduled in Islamabad between the foreign secretaries after Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit held talks with Kashmiri separatist leaders.
Also, ceasefire violations by Pakistani forces along the Line of Control and the International Border have increased over the last few weeks.
There have been 21 ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops in less than a fortnight and 23 in August.
Defence Minister Arun Jaitley has said in New Delhi that India has been responding effectively and strongly to the ceasefire violations by Pakistan side.
India has also further strengthened its counter infiltration grid to tackle any attempt by Pakistan to push in militants during the ceasefire violations.
- LoC tensions in August
- 21st August:
Pakistani troops target a mosque and residential houses in Mangalnarh forward belt of Rajouri, in Jammu and Kashmir
- 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.