The Pakistan Army on Sunday resorted to unprovoked and indiscriminate firing on Indian forward positions along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch sector of Jammu division.
The Pakistan Army on Sunday resorted to unprovoked and indiscriminate firing on Indian forward positions along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch sector of Jammu division.
The incident occurred at 5.15 pm when alert troops deployed along the LOC detected the movement and engaged with effective automatic fire.
Indian army has launched massive search and sanitisation operations in the area following the violation of ceasefire by Pakistan.
“Pakistan continues in its nefarious designs of supporting and abetting infiltration across the LOC. The Army is keeping a strict and constant vigil across the LOC and is prepared to thwart any nefarious designs of Pakistan sponsored terrorists,” said an army spokesman at Jammu.
The ceasefire violation comes a week after the Pakistan Army resorted to heavy shelling on Indian forward positions and civilian areas along the Line of Control, killing a woman in Pukherni village of Rajouri district.
More than 20 people have been killed in Pakistani shelling near LoC and the international border across Jammu since January 17. While over 60 have suffered injuries, nearly half a lakh people have fled their homes in Jammu division.
The cross-border firing comes against the backdrop of army's revelation that more than 400 terrorists are waiting across the Line of Control (LoC) to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir.
“Their (terrorists) number never decreases. There are training camps and launch pads from where they are pushed. If you see south of Pir Panjal, there are 185 to 220 terrorists and in the north there are 195-220 terrorists. Once they are pushed and we eliminate them, they get replenishment,” said Lieutenant General Devraj Anbu, General Officer Commanding in Chief (GOC-in-C) of Northern Command said on February 14.
Earlier, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti called for dialogue with Pakistan to end the bloodshed in the state, but the BJP said talks were not suitable at a time when the neighbouring country was "supporting" militant attacks.
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