Union minister Jitendra Singh today said the Army is giving a befitting reply, which was unseen in last several decades, to Pakistan's ceasefire violations along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district. This is the third violation in the last 2 days.
Speaking to IANS, Defence Ministry spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Manish Mehta said, "Pakistan Army initiated indiscriminate firing and shelling on our positions on the LoC in the Rajouri sector". As many as 27 families have been affected due to the shelling in which many houses, and a school, have been damaged partially or severely.
Pakistan said 13 people, including many women and a toddler, were injured in firing by Indian troops.
Three civilians including wife of Tufail Zaitoon Begum were injured in the shelling.
On Thursday, Pakistan violated the ceasefire in Nowshera, following which two Pakistan Army soldiers were injured in retaliatory firing from the Indian side.
More than 150 people have been rescued from the vulnerable villages and brought to the shelter camps. "Till now 259 families have been evacuated from three villages", Deputy Commissioner, Rajouri, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary said.
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Following the ceasefire violations, all schools in Nowshera, Qila Darhal and Manjakote have been closed indefinitely.
They had on Saturday pounded civilian areas and forward posts along the LoC in Nowshera area with mortar shells, killing two persons and injuring three.
Meanwhile, the Indian Army posts are retaliating strongly and effectively and the firing is presently on. As the security forces were conducting search operations, militants fired upon them, the official said.
A building damaged in shelling at Nowshera sector in Jammu on Sunday.
District administration provided immediate relief and financial assistance to the next of kin of the deceased and to the injured, he said.
The troops of India and Pakistan intermittently exchange fire on 720 km-long LoC and 198 km IB in Kashmir, despite an agreement in 2003 to observe cease-fire.
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