BSF ASI hurt in Pak firing

JAMMU: Breaking the truce along the Line of Control (LoC) after two weeks of peace, Pakistan Army has violated the Ceasefire in Poonch district, resulting in injuries to a BSF officer.

“A BSF officer was injured in the cross-border shelling by the Pakistan Army in Poonch district,” officials said on Sunday.

Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Satyapal Singh suffered splinter injuries when a mortar shell exploded near him while manning a forward post at Baloni in Krishna Ghati sector on late Saturday night, they said.

The officials said the officer was shifted to the military hospital and his condition was "stable".

Indian troops guarding the LoC also retaliated to the unprovoked shelling by Pakistan and the border skirmishes between the two sides lasted for a very brief period, they said, adding there was no report of fresh ceasefire violation from anywhere along the LoC since then.

The last ceasefire violation by Pakistan came on May 6, in which a BSF officer and two civilians were injured in Poonch district.

On May 5 also, a colonel-rank officer was injured in Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch in Pakistani shelling, while a 25-year-old porter suffered splinter injuries when a mortar shell exploded near him in Keri sector of Rajouri district.

Two Pakistani civilians, including a minor, were killed on the other side of the fence in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir as Indian Army retaliated strongly to breach in LoC truce.

Pakistan has violated ceasefire by 513 times along the LoC in the state in the past two months.

The Pakistani side has suffered five to six times more casualties than the Indian side in retaliatory action, a senior official said.

Ten people, including four soldiers, have been killed and over 50 injured in Rajouri and Poonch districts since India's February 26 air strike on a JeM terror camp in Pakistan's Balakot in response to the Pulwama terror attack that left 40 CRPF personnel dead.

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