Srinagar, August 2
Making light of India's protests, Army posts in Uri sector of Baramulla district came under firing from across the border last evening, the third such brazen violation of the ceasefire agreement by Pakistan in less than a month.
Official sources said Pakistan's troops used small-arm fire to push militants into the Indian side. There were no casulaties.
“They appeared to have engaged us so that infiltrators could be pushed through. But I can't confirm the infiltration,” an official said.
Pakistani forces had fired on Indian posts in Nowgam sector in Kupwara on July 28 and July 30. In the first, their soldiers had intruded into the Indian side and targeted a bunker that killed a jawan. In retaliatory fire, at least four Pak soldiers were killed. Pakistan had denied this, though.
The two armies held a flag meeting on July 29 after the firing on July 28 but there was mortar firinf by Pakistani troops the very next day.
The Pakistani army has violated the ceasefire agreement, which came into effect from 2003, at least 20 times this year.
Sources in the Army believe that a weak government in that country has emboldened extremist elements in their army and they are out to sabotage the ceasefire pact.
