Jammu: India and Pakistan, after a pause of ten days, once again traded fire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch late Tuesday.
An official of the Defense Ministry stated that Pakistan army started firing and shelling at the Indian posts at around 8.30 pm.
“Pakistan firing started at 8.30 pm yesterday (Tuesday) and continued for nearly half an hour. Our troops retaliated effectively and strongly”, the official said.
Tuesday’s ceasefire violation came after ten days of lull on the borders.
On March 18, five members of a family were killed and two other injured when a mortar shell fired from across the LoC hit a residential house in Balakote sector of Poonch district.
The Indian and Pakistani armies recently exchanged heavy fire along the Line of Control in the Mendhar area of Poonch in which five members of a family were killed.
Earlier, also in Uri, India and Pakistan used heavy artillery against each other. The escalations went to a point that the administration in Uri had to evacuate people and declare an ’emergency’.
According to reports, Pakistan Army, using public address systems asked the people living near the LoC in Uri to move to safer places.
In that face off between the two nations, heavy artillery was used, however the Indian Army chose to ‘downplay’ the escalation and called it a ‘local phenomenon’.
