Similarly, Pakistan started firing 82 mm mortars at 6.25am in Narayanpur and violated the ceasefire in Naushera sector in Rajouri district as well.
Sources said that besides positioning border action teams for the sneak attacks on Indian soldiers, the Pakistani army has deployed additional troops from 12 Mujahideen Battalion, 14 Okra infantry and 19 Mangla infantry close to the de-facto border on their side.
India and Pakistan agreed on a ceasefire in 2003 and both the sides have accused each other of regularly violating the agreement.
Border skirmishes intensified after Pakistani militants attacked a military base in Jammu and Kashmir’s Uri, killing 19 Indian soldiers on September 18.
The Uri attack prompted the Indian Army to carry out a surgical strike that destroyed seven terror launch pads and killed an unknown number of terrorists and their sympathisers in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, across the LoC.
Pakistan has violated the ceasefire agreement over 62 times since the September 29 surgical strikes.
Heightened border tensions between the two countries have forced many residents of frontier villages to migrate to safer locations.
India shares 230km of International Border and 740km of LoC with Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir. The boundary, manned by the paramilitary BSF runs through Jammu district and the LoC, which is not an internationally-accepted frontier, cuts across other regions of the state.
(Sourced from agencies, feature image courtesy:financialexpress.com)
