JAMMU:
Pakistan on Friday violated ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in J&K’s Rajouri and Poonch districts, resorting to unprovoked and indiscriminate
small arms firing and mortar shelling on
forward Indian Army posts and border villages. This is the eighth such breach of truce in the past six days.
“Around 3.30am, Pakistan violated ceasefire and initiated firing of small arms accompanied by heavy shelling along the LoC in Poonch’s
Krishna Ghati sector, to which
Indian Army effectively retaliated.
There was no injury or damage suffered by own side,” Jammu-based defence spokesperson Lt Col Devender Anand said.
“Again around 7.20am, Pakistani troops breached the truce along the LoC in Nowshera sector of Rajouri district, attracting a befitting retaliation from own soldiers,” Lt Col Anand added.
There has been no letdown in ceasefire violations by Pakistan even amid the global Covid-19 outbreak. On May 20, it breached truce along the LoC twice in Poonch — once in Kirni and Degwar sectors and the second time in Kirni and Qasba sectors. Prior to that, Pakistani troops twice opened unprovoked fire and shelled mortars targeting forward Indian posts in Rajouri’s Sunderbani and Balakote sectors. Similar breaches of truce were reported along the LoC in Poonch’s Gulpur sector on May 18 and Degwar sector on May 17.