Armed men in Pakistan army uniform attacked an Indian post along the Line of Control in the Poonch sector in Jammu and Kashmir late Monday night, killing five Indian soldiers.
Hours after the uproar in Parliament over the killing of 5 Indian soldiers along the border, India has summoned Pakistani High Commissioner Salman Bashir.
Armed men in Pakistan army uniform attacked an Indian post along the Line of Control in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir late last night, killing five Indian soldiers.
Defence Minister AK Antony made a statement on the incident in the Lok Sabha.According to reports, the attack took place after midnight at the Sarla post on the Indian side of the LoC in Poonch.
State Chief Minister Omar Abdullah expressed condolences over the deaths and said that incidents like these don’t help efforts to normalise or even improve relations with Pakistan.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tweeted, “(I) was briefed early this morning about the news that five of our soldiers had been killed on the LoC. My heartfelt condolences to their next of kin”.
Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh is taking stock of the situation, Army sources said in Delhi.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif are slated to meet in New York next month on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session.
The incident comes hours after a BSF jawan was injured in firing from across Indo-Pak border in Samba district of J-K.
“There was sniper firing from some persons at around 15:55 hours from Pakistan side along the International Border (IB) at Narainpur Border Out Post (BOP) area in Ramgarh sector,” a senior BSF officer said.
Two rounds were fired from Pakistan side and the bullets hit Head Constable Ram Niwas Meena of 200 Battalion, he said.On 27th July, another BSF jawan was injured when Pakistani troops violated ceasefire twice in the space of 10 hours by targeting Indian posts along the Indo-Pak border in Poonch and Kathua districts.
The Pakistani troops had used mortars, RPGs and heavy machine guns leading to heavy firing exchanges.On 3rd July, Pakistan violated ceasefire when it fired on cops, who had gone to LoC in Sabzian, Poonch to collect the body of a Pakistani intruder killed in an IED blast on 1st July.
Pakistani troops fired on troops trying to evacuate injured porters after two were killed in IED attack by Pakistani militants along LoC in Poonch on 8th July.On 12th July, Pakistani Rangers fired on Indian forward posts in Pindi belt along International Border (IB) in Jammu district.
Pakistani troops opened small arms firing on Indian posts in forward area along LoC in Poonch district on the night of 22nd July.