Pakistan violates ceasefire along LoC in Rajouri

JAMMU: Pakistan violated the ceasefire on Sunday and targeted forward posts and villages along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu & Kashmir’s Rajouri district.
At 7.15pm, Pakistan initiated unprovoked firing from small arms and intense mortar shelling along the LoC in Sunderbani sector of Rajouri district, to which Indian Army retaliated befittingly, Jammu-based defence spokesperson Lt Col Devender Anand said.
There has been a spurt in ceasefire violations by Pakistan in the two frontier districts of Rajouri and Poonch in which five soldiers and four civilians have been killed since June.
Four soldiers were killed in Rajouri district — Havildar Sambur Gurung on July 10 and Havildar Dipak Karki on June 22 in Nowshera sector; Naik Gurcharan Singh on June 10 in Manjakote sector; and Havildar Mathiazhagan P on June 4 in Sunderbani sector — while the fifth, Sepoy Lungambui Abonmei was killed in Kirni sector of Poonch on June 13.
All four civilian deaths have been reported from Poonch district. A 60-year-old woman was killed on July 8 and three of a family, a couple and their teenage son, were killed on July 17.