New Delhi/Poonch: In yet another breach of the five-year-old ceasefire agreement with India, Pakistani army troops on Monday lobbed mortars and targeted small arms fire at Indian posts in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
No casualties were reported from the Indian side, which also retaliated with controlled fire at the Pakistani army posts, according to Army sources here.
This is the 22nd violation of the November 2003 ceasefire agreement by Pakistanis since January this year.
"Pakistani troops lobbed 60-mm mortars and continued with small arms fire at the Poonch Indian post from 12.30 hours to 13.30 hours this afternoon," Army's spokesperson in Srinagar Lt Col A K Mathur told PTI.
The intermittent firing from the Pakistanis went on during the one-hour period from their Rawalkot posts, Army sources said.
A fortnight earlier on July 28, a group of 12 Pakistani regulars had crossed over the LoC at Nowgam and entered Indian territory to confront an Indian post in Khayam area, killing a jawan there.
Defence Minister A K Antony, in a strongly worded statement on the Nowgam incident, asked Pakistan to respect the ceasefire.
Despite his appeal, there has been no respite to the Army troops along the LoC with Pakistani troops targeting their guns at Indian posts.
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