Pak Rangers again violate ceasefire in Jammu region

Jammu, August 2

Violating the ceasefire yet again, the Pakistan Rangers resorted to firing of mortar bombs on border outposts along the international border in Jammu district on Saturday night.

“The Pakistan Rangers fired two mortar bombs on border outposts along the international border in the RS Pura sector around 10.40 pm onSaturday,” said a senior BSF officer today.

BSF personnel guarding the border did not retaliate, he said. “There was no loss of life or injury to anyone in the Pakistani firing,” he said. This was the second ceasefire violation along the international border in the last 12 hours.

Onsaturday, the Pakistan Rangers violated the ceasefire by resorting to small arms firing and mortar shelling on 23 border outposts along the international border in Akhnoor sector of Jammu district, drawing retaliation from the BSF.

Pakistani soldiers violated the ceasefire four times on July 29 and 30 along the Line of Control (LoC). There had been three incidents of sniper attack by Pakistani soldiers along the LoC in July. An Army jawan was killed in Poonch and two BSF jawans killed in similar incidents along the LoC in the Kashmir valley.

There have been 18 ceasefire violations along the Indo-Pak border in July this year. Four persons, including three jawans, were killed and 14 others injured in the truce violations. —PTI