...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
’s Poonch district, police and defence officials said on Sunday.
Two other soldiers were also injured late on Saturday after the heavy shelling by Pakistain in Poonch district Shahpur-Kirni sector, they said.
Ramesh Kumar Angral, the senior superintendent of police (SSP) of Poonch, said 29-year-old Sepoy Lungambui Abonmei died in the shelling and sepoys Lienkhothien Senghon and Tangsoik Kwianiungar were maimed, Angral said.
The injured soldiers have been airlifted to the Command Hospital in Udhampur for further treatment, he added.
All the three soldiers belong to the 10th Battalion of Assam Regiment.
| Indian and Pak troops have been exchanging gunfire and mortar shelling along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir almost every day now. |
Lt Col Devender Anand, the defence spokesperson, said the Pakistain army resorted to an unprovoked ceasefire violation on LoC in Poonch sector on Saturday.
"Own troops responded strongly to the enemy fire. In the incident, Sepoy Lungambui Abonmei was critically injured and later departed this vale of tears," Anand said.
"Sepoy Lungambui Abonmei was a brave, highly motivated and sincere soldier. The nation will always remain indebted to him for his supreme sacrifice and devotion to duty," he added.
Pakistain also violated the ceasefire in Rampur sector of Baramulla district on Sunday morning.
"A befitting response is being given," the Indian Army said.
Indian and Pak troops have been exchanging gunfire and mortar shelling along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir almost every day now.
