Pakistani troops violate ceasefire at various places along LoC: J-K

After a nigh long lull, Pakistani troops resumed heavy mortar shelling at various places along the Line of Control (LoC) in Pallanwala, Sunderwani and Nowshera sectors on Friday morning. Confirming this, a Defence Ministry spokesperson Lt Colonel Manish Mehta, in Jammu said that Pakistani troops were using “small arms, automatics, 82 mm and 120 mm mortars”. The Indian Army was “responding appropriately and befittingly”, he added.

Sources said that the shelling was intense causing panic among the people. However, there had been no casualty or damage on the Indian side so far.