RAWALPINDI - In a tit-for-tat action, Pakistan Army on Monday destroyed an Indian army post across the Line of Control and killed two soldiers hours after a Pakistani minor boy lost his life in Indian firing along the Line of Control (LoC).
“Pakistan Army troops neutralised Indian post which targeted a minor along LOC. Two Indian soldiers killed,” the military's media wing Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Monday.
Nearly two hours earlier, Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor had said in a tweet that an eight-year-old boy named Ayan was killed in Indian firing in Janjot Bahadar, a village of Azad Jammu and Kashmir's Kotli district.
“Indian brutality takes life of an eight year old boy Ayan of Jajot village along LOC.” “Use of pellet guns in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK) and blatant targeting of innocent unarmed civilians across LoC exposes true Indian face,” the ISPR added.
On February 11, three civilians including two women were injured in Indian firing along the LoC in Battal, Hot Spring and Khuiratta sectors. Unprecedented escalation in ceasefire violations by India has been continuing since the year 2017 when the Indian forces committed more than 1900 ceasefire violations. In 2018, Indian forces have committed more than 150 violations, prompting befitting response from the Pakistani side.
The heavily militarised dividing line is witnessing constant cross-border shelling in a serious breach of a truce agreement signed in November 2003 by the two armies.