Pakistani troops continued unprovoked firing towards the Indian side at several locations along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir for the eighth night, the Indian Army said on Friday.
This comes amid heightened tensions between the two countries in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack.
“During the night of 01-02 May 2025, Pakistan Army posts resorted to unprovoked small arms firing from posts across the Line of Control opposite Kupwara, Baramulla, Poonch, Naushera, and Akhnoor areas of the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir,” the Army said in a statement.
Indian troops responded in a calibrated and proportionate manner, the statement said.
The firing from across the border also comes at a time when hundreds of Pakistani nationals are stranded in India following the closure of its gates by Pakistan on the Wagah-Attari border on Thursday.
The Director Generals of Military Operations (DGMOs) of India and Pakistan had talked to each other over a hotline on Tuesday last. During the talks, sources said that India warned Pakistan against unprovoked incidents of firing by the Pakistan Army along the LoC.
The DGMOs had at a meeting in 2021 reiterated their commitment to abide by the 2003 ceasefire agreement between the two countries to ensure peace along the International Border and the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
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Except for a few incidents of sniper fire, the ceasefire agreement remained in force on the ground until the April 22 terror attack on tourists in Pahalgam, in which 26 civilians were killed. The current spate of small arms fire by Pakistani troops started within hours after India suspended the Indus Water Treaty as one of several measures following the Pahalgam attack.
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