An Army soldier was injured as Pakistan army again violated ceasefire by resorting to unprovoked mortar shelling and firing of small arms on forward posts and villages along Line of Control (LoC) at Nowshera sector in Rajouri District and Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch District on March 5, reports Daily Excelsior. Indian troops also retaliated very effectively and strongly at all the places in Nowshera and Krishna Ghati sectors.
Official sources said an Army trooper, guarding a forward post in Kalal area of Nowshera sector in Rajouri District, suffered a bullet injury in the firing from across the border on March 5. Sources said Pakistani troopers first targeted forward posts and villages in Nowshera around 11:30 am and the cross-border skirmishes continued for some time. Pakistani army also initiated shelling with mortars and small arms in Krishna Ghati sector around 6 pm, they said.
There has been a spurt in ceasefire violations by Pakistan after India’s air strike at Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist camp in Balakote on February 26 in a preemptive action following the February 14 Pulwama attack. Four civilians, including three members of a family, were killed and several others injured in over 60 ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the LoC last week.