NEW DELHI, India: The Indian army has warned Pakistan of “unexpected damages” if it continues to violate the ceasefire along the border in Jammu and Kashmir, according to a report on the NDTV website.
“There are certain elements across the border who want to create trouble on the Line of Control… we have to give them certain unexpected damage to so that they don’t repeat it in future,” the Commander of the Nagrota-based Headquarters 16 Corps outside Jammu Lieutenant General KH Singh said on Monday.
The Indian general claimed that the Pakistani army shelled and opened fired on Poonch sector villages in India-held Kashmir’s Jammu region on Saturday as Eidul Fitr celebrations were underway because the Indian army had ‘stopped terrorists from crossing the border’ just a few days earlier.
“One girl was killed on the Pakistan side ─ we regret the incident. The Pakistani army also suffered major damages. They chose the Eid day to retaliate and targeted our civilian areas after Eid prayers,” he said.
In recent three separate incidents of cross-border firing on the Line of Control (LoC) and Working Boundary by the Indian border forces, at least four Pakistanis were killed. The Pakistani troops also shot down an Indian spy drone which intruded into Pakistan along the LoC near Bhimber town of Azad Kashmir on July 15.
“The Government of Pakistan expresses its deep concern at the unprovoked ceasefire violations by the Indian Security forces at the LoC and the offensive posture adopted during the last few days,” the Foreign Office Spokesman Qazi Khalilullah said on July 28 in response to ceasefire violation by the Indian forces at LoC.
“It is deeply regretted that once again the ceasefire violations by the Indian troops are being committed during the Eid holidays, as was done by them last year, when many innocent civilians were martyred. This time four civilians lost their lives on 15 and 16 July when people were busy preparing for the most happy and sacred occasion of Eid ul Fitr,” the spokesman said.
The Pakistan army also registered a complaint with the United Nations Military Observers group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) against cease fire violations by the Indian army along the LoC and Working Boundary after which a fact-finding team visited Saleh Pur, Chaprar and Malane in Chaprar Sector near working boundary.
