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Pak violates ceasefire, targets Indian posts
Pakistani troops on Tuesday fired small arms and mortars to target the Indian positions and forward posts in Shahpur Kandi area along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch sector.
Pakistani troops on Tuesday fired small arms and mortars to target the Indian positions and forward posts in Shahpur Kandi area along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch sector.
The latest ceasefire violation from the facing troops came shortly after the midnight and continued through Tuesday morning, a defence spokesperson in Jammu said. He added, “The Pakistanis resorted to unprovoked and indiscriminate firing on Indian Army posts along LoC in Poonch sector since midnight.”
The Indian troops retaliated by opening fire with comparable weapons, the spokesperson said, adding that there were no casualties or damage. caused to the Indian side. The spokesman further said that this was second violation in less than one week of the November 2003 ceasefire agreement between the two sides.
In earlier incident occurred on September 2, Pakistani troops had violated ceasefire by firing on forward Army posts along LoC in Akhnoor sector in Jammu district. However, militant outfit Hizb-ul-Mujahedin had claimed that it were its cadres who had attacked the Indian troops in the area.
