Pak troops violate ceasefire again, fire along LoC -- Times Of IndiaSRINAGAR: Indian Army positions were fired at from Pakistani side in Nowgam sector of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, said an Army spokesman.
Pakistan troops have violated ceasefire for the third time in two weeks.
Brig. Gopala Krishnan Murali said the Pakistanis opened fired just after noon on Wednesday and "we returned fire but there were no casualties." ( Watch )
He said the skirmish lasted about 15 minutes.
Indian and Pakistani soldiers have traded gunfire at least twice before last month in the same Kupwara region.
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‘ISI should not be discussed in public forum’ -- Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) should no longer be discussed in a public forum, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Tuesday. He said that no one was allowed to discuss intelligence agencies or move against them in parliament in the United Kingdom and it was a pity that the government was giving the country’s enemies reason to criticise it. He said the ISI was an important organisation that worked in the interests of the country. Referring to statements by the Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, he said that it was shameful that the PML-N had tried to siege the ISI in 1999 by appointing a handpicked retired army officer as its director general and was now trying to capture it.
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Pakistan poised to send 800 guerrillas to India: BSF -- Daily Times
* Paramilitary officials say security force has intensified patrols along Rajasthan’s borders with Pakistan
JODHPUR: India on Tuesday stepped up security on its border, a top Indian paramilitary official said, alleging that Pakistan may be looking for an ‘opportunity’ to push nearly 800 militants onto its soil.
“We have received information that nearly 800 militants are waiting to cross over to India at the borders,” Border Security Force (BSF) chief AK Mitra said in Indore, a strategic city in the Rajasthan state bordering Pakistan.
The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is waiting for an ‘opportunity’ to launch the cross-border intrusion, Mitra claimed, adding that India’s borders were being fortified to prevent any infiltration.
The 120,000-member BSF is India’s first line of defence along its frontier with Pakistan. “The wired fencing at border areas is being further strengthened” and other steps are being taken that have “effectively checked” the threat of infiltration, Mitra said.
Intensified patrols: Other paramilitary officials in Jodhpur, a city also located in Rajasthan, said on Tuesday that the security force had intensified patrols along the state’s borders with Pakistan and elsewhere in northern India.
The charge that Pakistan plans a major guerrilla infiltration came after deadly serial blasts against Indian targets and clashes along the Line of Control last month badly strained the peace process.
India says it has the “clearest evidence” of the ISI’s involvement in an attack on its embassy in Kabul last month that killed 60 people — a charge denied by Pakistan..
New Delhi has also repeatedly accused Pakistan of training and funding militants and pushing them into the revolt-hit Muslim-majority region of Indian-held Kashmir as well as other parts of India — allegations that Islamabad rejects.
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My Comment: An outsider looking in would say that both sides are now positioning themselves for a war. All we need now is one twitchy and tense scene that results in a massive firefight.