After six-month lull, Pakistan violates border ceasefire in J-K

“The exchange of mortar fire and automatics continued from about midnight to 0430 hours,’’ he said, adding that the Indian Army “responded appropriately’’. There was no casualty or damage on the side of the Indian troops, he added.

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Significantly, it has been after nearly six months that LoC in Poonch have become alive, as there had been incidents of intermittent firing by the Pakistani troops in the area during September last year.

Nearly a dozen people had been killed and three dozen others injured between July-September last year in unprovoked firing and mortar shelling from across the border which had been started after Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had met PM Narendra Modi at Ufa and reiterated his government’s resolve to fight terror and have friendly relations with India.

A day after Director Generals of BSF and Chenab Rangers had a meeting in New Delhi on September 12 agreeing to maintain ceasefire between themselves, a BSF official was killed in a snippet fire from across the LoC in Manjakote area of Rajouri district.