India retaliates effectively
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 2: For eighth consecutive night post Pahalgam terror attack, Pakistan army continued unprovoked firing along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir prompting retaliation from the Indian Army.
Pakistan opened firing in Poonch, Nowshera and Akhnoor sectors involving three districts of Poonch, Rajouri and Jammu in the Jammu region and Baramulla and Kupwara in the Kashmir valley last night.
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Indian Army retaliated effectively and appropriately at all places silencing the Pakistani guns.
The firing by Pakistan army continued even after Director Generals of Military Operations (DGMOs) of India and Pakistan spoke on hotline on Tuesday.
However, there was no damage on Indian side in Pakistan firing while casualties or losses on Pakistan side couldn’t be ascertained immediately.
This is the eighth consecutive night of unprovoked firing along the LoC, amid heightened tensions following the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam in which 26 people were killed.
“During the night of May 1-2, 2025, Pakistani army posts resorted to unprovoked small arms fire from posts across the LoC opposite Kupwara, Baramulla, Poonch, Nowshera, and Akhnoor areas of Jammu and Kashmir,” a Defence spokesperson said here.
Indian Army troops responded in a calibrated and proportionate manner, he added.
Initially beginning with unprovoked small arms firing at several posts along the LoC in Kupwara and Baramulla districts of north Kashmir, Pakistan swiftly expanded its ceasefire violations to the Poonch sector and subsequently to the Akhnoor sector of the Jammu region.
This was followed by small arms firing at several posts along the LoC in the Sunderbani and Nowshera sectors of Rajouri district. Subsequently, the firing expanded to the Pargwal sector along the International Border in Jammu district.
While harvesting of crops in parts of R S Pura and Arnia sectors along the IB has been completed, it is still going on in Kathua, Samba, Rajouri and Poonch districts.
The harvesting has been expedited in view of the tensions along the borders.
The ceasefire along the borders was reaffirmed in February 2021, when both countries agreed to observe the 2003 agreement in letter and spirit. However, the current situation marks a significant departure from the relative calm maintained since then.
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