Pakistan violates LoC ceasefire for 7th straight night; firing across 3 J&K districts

Pakistani troops continued ceasefire violations along the Line of Control for the seventh consecutive night by its unprovoked firing in several sectors across three border districts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Thursday.

Army officials said during the night of April 30-May 1, Pakistan Army posts initiated unprovoked small arms fire across the Line of Control opposite Kupwara, Uri, and Akhnoor in Jammu & Kashmir.

Indian Army troops responded swiftly and proportionately, they added.

Initially commencing with unprovoked small arms firing at several posts along the LoC in Kupwara and Baramulla districts of north Kashmir, Pakistan swiftly expanded its ceasefire violation to the Poonch sector and subsequently to the Akhnoor sector of the Jammu region.

It was followed by small arms firing on several posts along the LoC in the Sunderbani and Naushera sectors of Rajouri district on Tuesday night. Subsequently, it expanded the firing to the Pargwal sector along the International Border in Jammu district on Wednesday.

Since the night of April 24, just hours after India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty following the killing of 26 people in the Pahalgam terror attack, Pakistani troops have been resorting to unprovoked firing at various places along the LoC in J&K, beginning from the Kashmir Valley.

In Kashmir, officials stated that an alert has been issued in the border areas and security has been tightened in nearby towns. They added that checkpoints have been set up and frisking intensified in response to the ongoing border tensions.