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| Is Pak violating LoC truce pact? |
| 2007-12-03 |
| JAMMU: Mystery shrouds the nature of a raging gunbattle at Sunderbani in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Sunday. While the Army maintains it’s an encounter with holed-up terrorists, sources said Pakistan army, in violation of the four-year-old ceasefire, was launching attacks on Indian posts. Two soldiers and a terrorist have been killed so far in the exchange of fire that began five days ago. "The encounter began after the Army foiled an infiltration bid by terrorists on November 28. Two jawans belonging to 18 J&K Rifles — Havaldar Nirmal Singh and Lance Naik Narinder Chouhan — were killed on Saturday. A terrorist was also killed. The encounter is going on," defence spokesman Lt Col S D Goswami said. On November 25, a jawan was killed and two others were injured in what was described as the first major violation of the four-year-old India-Pakistan ceasefire across the LoC and the international border. The Army, however, refused to describe it as ceasefire violation and maintained it was "hostile fire" from across the LoC. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #3 It won't be war... Pakistan is not a normal nuclear armed state and India has learned to calibrate the response. Any normal state would be very careful about firing artillery rounds onto the troop positions of another state, especially a nuclear armed one. Not Pakistan. Pakistan sees its nukes as giving it license to bleed India. So to assist the ISI trained terrorists crossing the border, it used to launch artillery and direct fire onto Indian bunkers. Under this covering fire, the terrorists used to cross over into India. If the Pak army has begun this pattern again, expect to see Indian gunners make several Pak controlled valleys no go areas. There will be artillery duels, this time with weapon locating radars on both sides and Indian "100 gun" batteries blasting the hell out of Pak positions. No war though... the two sides can trade fire like this for weeks on end. |
| Posted by: john frum 2007-12-03 15:03 |
| #2 Either Perv is losing control of some elements of the Army, or he's completely gone insane. The last thing phakestan needs right now is a war with India. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-12-03 14:52 |
| #1 Does a bear go poop in the woods? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-12-03 11:58 |