Pakistan Violates Ceasefire In Kupwara District

Indian Army soldiers with the 99th Mountain Brigade’s 2nd Battalion, 5th Gurkha Rifles, move into position while demonstrating a platoon-level ambush to paratroopers with the U.S. Army’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, May 7, 2013, at Fort Bragg, N.C. The soldiers are part of Yudh Abhyas, an annual bilateral training event between the armies of the United States and India, sponsored by U.S. Army Pacific. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod)

Pakistan again violated the ceasefire agreement on the Line of Control (LoC) on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district.

Army sources said Pakistan initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation along the LoC in Naugam sector of Kupwara district on Tuesday morning.

“They used firing by small arms and shelling by mortars to violate the ceasefire in Naugam sector today morning. Indian army has retaliated befittingly”, a source said.

Pakistan had also violated ceasefire on Monday in Tangdhar sector of the LoC in the same district.