Terror seems to have returned to the India-Pak border areas in Jammu & Kashmir, where heavy mortar shelling by Pakistan Rangers since the past twelve hours, has triggered migration from the affected border villages. Here are the eight latest developments.
1. Two army jawans and a woman were killed while 11 people were injured as Pakistani troops targeted villages and security posts at various places in J&K since Friday night which triggered migration of hundreds of people from some border areas.
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Union home minister Rajnath Singh regretted that Pakistan is repeatedly targeting border areas of India despite being offered a hand of friendship. Commenting on this, Rajnath Singh said in Delhi, "Pakistan should stop ceasefire violations." He wondered why Pakistan was continuously indulging in ceasefire violations despite having suffered badly every time.
3. "In the past six-seven months, we have tried to better our ties with India so that peace can prevail. But it seems that they do not understand this language," Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said. "I believe, we will now communicate with India in the language they understand," he said.
4. Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire
along the LoC near Kanhaiyah
Post last night by firing rocket propelled grenades into Tanghdar
area, police officials said while citing the FIR lodged by the Army.5. Along the International Border, Pakistani troops targeted villages and 13 border outposts with heavy mortar shelling in Kathua
and Samba districts of J&K, leading to death of a woman and injuries to eight others. 6. Shelling of villages triggered panic and migration from border villages and over 1400 people have been evacuated from hamlets in Samba and Kathua district, officials said. People have taken shelter in bunkers and are not venturing out, officials said.
7. The renewed ceasefire violations come barely two months after the last major escalation that left 13 people dead and displaced 32,000 border residents in August and October.
8. Over 550 incidents of ceasefire violations by Pakistan occurred in 2014, the highest since the truce came into force in 2003, with the Indo-Pak border witnessing the worst such escalation during August to October which left 13 people, including 2 security personnel dead. A total of 19 people, including 5 jawans, were killed and over 150 injured in such incidents last year.