Indo-Pak DGMOs speak on hotline
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 30: Pakistan army resorted to unprovoked heavy firing on the Line of Control (LoC) as well as the International Border (IB) in different sectors violating ceasefire prompting strong Indian retaliation.
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This was for the sixth consecutive night post Pahalgam terror attack of April 22 that Pakistan army engaged in unprovoked firing along the LoC in different sectors of Jammu and Kashmir.
However, no casualties were reported on the Indian side, the officials said.
Pakistan initially engaged in small arms firing in Sunderbani and Nowshera sectors on the LoC in Rajouri district and Pargwal area in Akhnoor sector on the International Border (IB) in Jammu district.
“On the night of April 29-30, Pakistan army posts initiated unprovoked small-arms fire across the Line of Control opposite the Nowshera, Sunderbani, and Akhnoor sectors in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir,” a Defence spokesperson in Jammu said.
The Indian Army troops responded swiftly and proportionately, he added.
Similar incidents of unprovoked small-arms fire were also reported from Pakistani posts across the LoC in Baramulla and Kupwara districts in the Kashmir valley.
This marked the sixth consecutive night of ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the LoC, amidst heightened tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad following a recent terror attack at Baisaran in Pahalgam tourist spot of Anantnag district of Kashmir on April 22 in which 26 innocent persons including 25 tourists and a local were killed.
Indian side didn’t suffer any casualties while fatalities or damages on Pakistan side couldn’t be ascertained immediately.
Initially, the firing began in Kupwara and Baramulla districts and then spread to the Poonch and Akhnoor sectors. It further escalated to the Sunderbani and Nowshera sectors in Rajouri district, followed by firing along the IB in Jammu’s Pargwal sector.
Since the night of April 24, shortly after India suspended the Indus Water Treaty in response to the killing of 26 people in the Pahalgam terror attack, Pakistani troops have been engaging in unprovoked firing at various locations along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir, starting from the Kashmir valley.
Meanwhile, the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of India and Pakistan spoke on hotline yesterday amid Pakistan’s unprovoked firing along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir.
It is learnt that the Pakistani side was cautioned over unprovoked firing by the Indian side during the exchanges.
However, no further details were available.
At several places on the LoC as well as International Border, the people have already started cleaning their bunkers anticipating escalation in the firing from Pakistan side. However, they were firm that they will not migrate and stay in the bunkers to boost morale of security forces.
India and Pakistan had agreed to a renewed ceasefire in February 2021 when the DGMOs of both countries reaffirmed their commitment to the 2003 ceasefire agreement.
India shares a 3,323-km-long border with Pakistan, comprising the International Border (IB), approximately 2,400 km from Gujarat to Akhnoor in Jammu; the 740-km-long LoC from Jammu to Leh; and the 110-km Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL) in the Siachen region.
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