LoC flare up: August 2013

[Gryphon]

Mortar shelling by Indian army injures 3, damages home in Kotli

August 15, 2013

AZAD KASHMIR: Unprovoked mortar shelling from the Indian army injured three civilians in the Nakyal Sector of Kotli, Express News reported on Thursday.

Mortar shelling on a house injured two civilians inside and damaged the house.

Tension between the two countries was set off by a series of unprovoked cross-border violations. Pakistan denies the allegations of attacking Indian soldiers.

Pakistan’s military officials accused Indian forces of opening fire and seriously injuring a Pakistani civilian in the Tatta Pani sector along the Line of Control (LoC) on August 8.

Pakistan’s National Assembly passed a resolution denouncing the “unprovoked Indian aggression on the Line of Control (LoC)”, mob attack on Pakistan’s diplomatic mission in New Delhi, demonstrations outside the PIA offices, prevention of the Dosti bus in Amritsar, and “vilification of Pakistan in the Indian media”.

On Wednesday, the Lok Sabha passed a resolution asserting that the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir “including the territory under occupation of Pakistan is and shall always be an integral part of India”.

Mortar shelling by Indian army injures 3, damages home in Kotli – The Express Tribune

Impotent Indian troops back in action ..

 

[A.Rafay]

yea! looks very massive!! keep it up!

 

[Durrak]

For how long the situation will remain ???

 

[OrionHunter]

For how long the situation will remain ???

Till the cows come home!!

 

[Durrak]

Till the cows come home!!

Let's see but i hope it'll not cost the life of any brave soldier ..

 

[Areesh]

Nothing is gonna be achieved by this senseless shelling by both sides except killing some solideres fighting for there respective motherlands, instead a way out for ceasefire needs to be implemented

Good post. Nobody is going to achieve anything from this skirmishes. Both Pakistan or India. Only the one who would suffer would be soldiers and there families who most probably might belong to some poor background.

 

[notorious_eagle]

I never said attack,i said increase and escalate the military presence along the border with armour,artillery and aircraft moved up and repulse any further violations with max force.I didn't say cross the LOC.

If only it was that easy, once you move the big guns the likelihood of war increases by many folds. If both sides use heavy fire power, the chances of death on the other side increases which forces the opposing side to reply with the same amount of fire power. Once the intensity of fire power increases, there is no stopping it.

Personally i am very saddened by these incidents. The only purpose behind these incidents is to cause casualty for the other side, there is no definite objective behind it, only death. One side has to be the bigger man and stop these senseless killings.

 

[[Bregs]]

Actually the war mongers have taken there rhetoric to such a high intensity that govt from either side is clueless about how to control n stop this insane pounding of each others army man who after all are humans too and have there families just like ours

 

[Bang Galore]

Kill as many indians as possible. I hope PA turns this into a war of attrition.

War of attrition? Against a country & an army with numbers on their side?

Aurangzeb had the right idea when it came to dealing with Indians.

Was that like Chingis Khan & Muslims?

 

[Gentelman]

wat did your dad do? kill your english teacher?

Its an internal matter of India, mind your own business! It has not invaded China or Pakistan! You never read your own history?

Since when attack on soverign states became internal matter of India??
We know our history very well dude
and that angle was you claiming the peaceul a$$ in the past 1000 years which never cried……
When some people can't understand something they just blame others for their own mistakes……

 

[Edevelop]

Seven more civilians injured in Indian shelling

MUZAFFARABAD: Seven more civilians, including three women, were injured in Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday in unremitting ceasefire violations by Indian troops from across the Line of Control, official sources said.

The ceasefire violations took place in Batot, Lanjot, Balakot and Dheri Dabsi villages of Nakial sector in southern Kotli district, deputy commissioner Masoodur Rehman told Dawn by telephone after visiting the affected areas along with a senior military official.

He said two of the injured were hospitalised in Nakial and Kotli. The others were sent home after first aid.

Six of them were identified as Javed, son of Shah Mohammad, Mushtaq, son of Kalu Khan, Razzaq, son of Mukhtar, Fakhira, daughter of Yousuf Mughal, Sakina, wife of Khalil Malik and Kiran, daughter of Javed.

The deputy commissioner said four houses and two vehicles were badly damaged in the shelling.

“The morale of the residents in affected areas is high. There has been no displacement in any area,” he said.

Police sources told Dawn that Indian troops used mortars during the shelling, which began at 4am and continued intermittently till early afternoon.

Pakistani troops had “properly responded”, they said.

DOCTORS’ LEAVES CANCELLED: The AJK’s Director General of Health, Dr Abdul Quddus Akhtar, has imposed an emergency in all health facilities in view of the escalation along the LoC.

He told Dawn that he had cancelled vacations of all doctors and paramedics so as to keep them prepared to meet any eventuality.

Reuters adds: Six civilians were injured in Azad Kashmir and three villagers were injured on the Indian-held side in Thursday’s shelling.

“There was no exchange of sweets at Aman Setu (Peace Bridge) today,” said Indian army officer Brigadier R.K. Singh, referring to a custom the soldiers from the two sides have observed on independence days of the two countries since a road between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad was reopened in 2005.

Seven more civilians injured in Indian shelling - DAWN.COM

 

[anant_s]

Hope i could say the same about Arnab!

 

[Parul]

Civilian injured as Pakistan violates ceasefire again

Jammu: In yet another ceasefire violation along the Line of Control, the eleventh in past five days, a civilian in Poonch was injured in an explosion of mortar shell fired by Pakistani troops, who targeted several Indian forward posts and civilian areas.

This resulted in heavy exchange of fire between the two sides and further escalation of tension.

There was firing by Pakistani forces along the LoC on several Indian forward posts in Balakote belt of Poonch district from 7.30 am today, officials said.

They fired automatic weapons and mortar shells, one of which resulted in injury to a civilian Parvaiz in Sanjote forward area.

He was admitted to a nearby hospital, and is being shifted to Government Medical College in Jammu, officials said.

At around 9 pm on Wednesday night, Pakistani troops had yet again violated the ceasefire and fired on Indian posts along LoC in the Poonch district, Defence Spokesperson S N Acharya said today.

Indian troops fired back, resulting in exchanges that continued till around 11 PM, he said, adding that there was no loss of life or injury to anyone in the firing.

There were two ceasefire violations on August 13, when Pak troops targeted Narianpur border outpost along the international border in Samba district and 16 Indian forward posts in Hamirpur, Balakote and Mankote forward areas in Poonch through the night.

Before that, three ceasefire violations had taken place on August 12 when Pakistani troops fired on border outposts and Indian posts along Indo-Pak border in Durga battalion (Poonch), Kothay (Samba) and Hamirpur-Balakote forward areas.

There were three incidents of ceasefire violation on August 11 also. One Jawan received bullet injuries in the cross-fire.

On August 10, in a major ceasefire violation three days after killing of five Indian jawans in Border Action Team attack, Pakistani troops targeted several Indian posts and fired 7,000 rounds of heavy Pika ammunition and mortar shells during seven hours of firing along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district.

There have also been 57 ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops this year from January 1 to August 5, which is 80 per cent more than the last year during the same corresponding period.

Civilian injured as Pakistan violates ceasefire again | NDTV.com

 

[timetravel]

For past few months, IA was killing lot of infiltrators.

Did the PA intensified firing on border because of very successful anti infiltration ops from IA!!

 

[Jango]

Eye popping stat.

800 mortar and small arty shells landed in Kotli sector in past 2 days.

Warmongering at its best.

2 civilians killed and 6 injured on 11 and 14 August. 6 Army soldiers injured.