Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 2: After a lull of several days, Pakistani troops today again violated ceasefire by resorting to mortar shelling and firing along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district, prompting retaliation by the Indian Army.
“At about 9.30 am, the Pakistani army initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation, starting with firing of small arms, followed by shelling with mortars, along the LoC in Shahpur and Kirni Sectors in Poonch district,” official sources said.
The Indian Army mounted a befitting retaliation, they added.
Guns had been silent along the LoC since April 15 when Pak troops had resorted to firing and shelling on forward areas in Nowshera sector in Rajouri.
Ten people, including four soldiers, have been killed and over 50 people injured in Rajouri and Poonch districts since India’s February 26 air strike on a JeM terror camp in Pakistan’s Balakote in which number of terrorists were killed in response to the Pulwama terror strike that left 44 CRPF personnel martyred.
As many as 513 ceasefire violations by Pakistan have taken place along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir in the past one-and-a-half months and the Pakistani side has suffered five to six times more casualties than the Indian Army in retaliatory action, sources said.
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