[Daily Excelsior] An Army soldier was injured as Pakistain army again violated ceasefire by resorting to unprovoked mortar shelling and firing of small arms on forward posts and villages at Nowshera and Krishna Ghati sectors in Rajouri and Poonch districts respectively.The unprovoked firing from across the border was retaliated very effectively and strongly by the Indian troops at all the places in Nowshera and Krishna Ghati sectors.
Official sources said an Army jawan, guarding a forward post in Kalal area of Nowshera sector, suffered a bullet injury in the firing from across the border and was subsequently admitted to a hospital.
Sources said Pak troopers first targeted forward posts and villages in Nowshera around 11:30 am and the cross-border skirmishes continued for some time.
Mighty Pak Army also initiated shelling with mortars and small arms in Krishna Ghati sector around 6 pm, they said.
They added that the Indian Army retaliated strongly but the casualties on the Pak side could not be ascertained immediately.
There has been a spurt in ceasefire violation by Pakistain after India’s air strike at Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally
Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf
bannedthe group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
terrorist camp in Balakote on February 26 in a preemptive action following the February 14 suicide kaboom in Pulwama in which 44 CRPF personnel were martyred.
Four civilians, including three members of a family, were killed and several others injured in over 60 ceasefire violations by Pakistain along the LoC last week.