UNPROVOKED PAKISTAN INITIATED CEASEFIRE VIOLATION IN BALAKOTE SECTOR
Jammu, 18 March 2018: Pakistan Army initiated unprovoked and indiscriminate firing from 0745h to 1130h along the Line of Control (LoC) in Balakote sector using small arms, 81mm and 120mm mortars.
Pakistan continues in its cowardly design of targeting innocent civilians, their homes and livestock in villages close to the Line of Control. The deliberate provocation has resulted in loss of five precious and innocent civilian lives.
Indian Army has retaliated strongly, effectively and proportionately to the dastardly act.