Security staff keeps vigilia when they guard near the control line. File | Photo Credit: PTI
During the night on Monday (May 5, 2025) and Tuesday (May 6, 2025), the Pakistan army continues to violate the ceasefire by resorting to the unprovoked shooting of small weapons from the functions through the control line.
The Indian army responded reasonably to shooting in the areas opposite the buyer, Baramulle, Poonch, Rajouri, Mendhar, Nausher, Sunderbani and Akhnoor in J&K.
It means 12. A consecutive night of such provocations in the middle of the escalating tension between India and Pakistan after a terrorist attack 22. April in Pahalgam, which remained 26 dead.
“During the night of May 5-6, the Pakistani army launched an unprovoked fire of small weapons across the LOC in the areas opposite Kupwar, Baramulla, Poonch, Rajouri, Mendhar, Nausher, Sunderbani and Aknoor,” Defense spokesman said.
“The Indian army responded quickly and in proportion,” he added.
The shooting exchange takes place in five districts from the seven border neighborhoods of Jammu and Kashmir. So far, there has been no report on the international border in the Samba and Kathua districts.
The last round of cross -border shooting further undermines the ceasefire agreement in February 2021, which is now largely considered ineffective due to frequent violations of Pakistan within the 740 km long LOC.
The latest hostility began in the northern districts of Kupwara and Baramulla in the Kashmir valley before spreading south to Rajouri, Poonch, Akhnor and the Pargwal sector along the International Border in the District of Jammu. The shooting influenced five border neighborhoods – Baramulla, Kupwara, Poonch, Rajouri and Jammu.
From the night of April 24th, hours after India suspended Indus Waters’ waters in response to the terrorist attack of Pahalgam – Pakistan troops repeatedly targeted to Indian positions along LOC, starting with Kashmir valley and rapidly spreading to the Jammu region.
In a series of retaliatory measures, Pakistan blocked his air space for Indian carriers, closed the border crossing Wagah, suspended a bilateral trade, and warned that any diversion of Indus water would be considered a “war act”.
The agreement on February 2021 was a re -confirmation of the original understanding of the ceasefire of 2003. However, the ground situation has deteriorated significantly and the norms of the ceasefire routinely aroused Pakistani forces.
India and Pakistan share 3,323 kilometers long borders, divided into three segments including the international border (IB), stretching about 2,400 km from Gujarat to Akhnoor in Jammú, 740 km-long control line (LOC) from Jammu to Ladakh, and 110-km-Long NJ9842 Indira Col.
(With PTI inputs)
Published – May 6, 2025 08:10 IS
