|
Indian, Pakistani armies to meet Monday over
LoC clashes
Sunday January 13, 2013 09:26:33 PM,
IANS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jammu: The Indian and
Pakistani armies will have a "flag meeting" Monday, after
Pakistani troops opened fresh fire at Indian border posts in Jammu
and Kashmir, officials said Sunday.
The meeting, to be led by brigadiers, will be held at 1 p.m. at
Chakan da Bagh on the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir's Poonch
district.
India had been seeking a brigadier-level meeting to discuss
escalating tensions on the LoC but Pakistan, which had called for
a UN probe into the incidents, responded only Sunday.
Meanwhile, Pakistani troops again fired at Indian border posts
along the LoC, which divides Kashmir between the two countries,
triggering a reponse from the Indian Army.
The latest firing in Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch began
overnight at 10 and continued an hour past midnight Saturday, an
official told IANS.
The military said the Pakistani firing was a violation of the
ceasefire effective on the LoC since 2003, and the Indian Army
offered a "calibrated response to silence Pakistani guns".
"Pakistani troops used medium and heavy machine gun fire. There
was no loss of life or injury on the Indian side," a source said.
This was said to be the seventh ceasefire violation since Jan 8
when Pakistani troops intruded into Jammu and Kashmir and killed
and beheaded two Indian soldiers, causing nationwide outrage.
One of the heads was taken away by the intruders. Pakistan has
denied that its troops were involved in the killings.
Since then, tensions have soared along the winding LoC.
Trade between the Indian and Pakistani Kashmir, which takes place
four days a week (Tuesday to Friday), stopped Jan 9 when Pakistani
authorities did not open the border gates on the LoC.
An official in the Poonch administration told IANS that the visas
of more than 30 Pakistanis who have come to Jammu and Kashmir to
meet their relatives would expire Monday.
"We will have to work on getting their visa extended," he said.
The cross-LoC bus travel and trade takes place at Chakan da Bagh
in Poonch district of Jammu region and at Salamabad in the Kashmir
Valley.
The LoC ceasefire agreement of November 2003 is considered the
mother of all confidence building measures between India and
Pakistan aimed at improving their bilateral relations.
|
|
|
|
Home |
Top of the Page
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
I |
|
|
|
|
More Headlines |
|
Palestinian film nominated for Oscar |
|
Over 100 killed in French air strikes,
fighting in Mali |
|
Indian origin Canadian Muslim woman wins Queen Elizabeth
Jubilee Medal |
|
Shakespeare, Wordsworth better therapy than
self-help books |
|
Mentally challenged US girl gang-raped in class |
|
Goa cops see social threat in ice cream
parlours |
|
Candidate list sets cat among pigeons in
Tripura Congress |
|
Himachal minister is just 10 digits away! |
|
Nearly a month later, protests continue at
Jantar Mantar |
|
Indian scientists devise 16 disaster
management drugs |
|
|
|
Top Stories |
|
IAF chief talks tough, government stresses
diplomacy
Government not
"going to be pressurised by wild calls for revenge and reaction,
says Khursheed
Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne termed violations of the Line of
»
Muslim scholars demand action against Pakistan
Amid border tensions, Indian doctors aid Pakistani patients
Soldiers' decapitation: India rejects
Pakistan demand for UN probe
Angry India protests as Pakistanis behead Indian soldiers
|
|
|
|
Most Read |
|
Yvonne Ridley urges Muslims to use media to counter Islamophobia
Addressing the 'Spring of Islam' conference here, organised by the Jamaat-e-Islami
over video conference from
»
Yvonne Ridley on how she converted to Islam
|
|
UN chief urges international action on Syria
Speaking at a Holocaust memorial event
in New York Saturday, the UN chief referred to the principle of
the responsibility to protect, which puts the obligation on every
state to protect the population from
»
UNICEF alarmed at reports of violence against children in Syria
|
|
|
|
News Pick |
|
 Will MIM correct its course?
Then the anti-Muslim forces played their card. In November 2012 on
the occasion of Diwali, in collusion with police they built a
rather large makeshift temple adjoining the wall
»
|
|
Woman panch shot in Kashmir, in critical condition
"Militants shot at Zoona, wife of Muhammad Ramzan, resident of
Harda Shiva village near Sopore town this (Saturday) evening. The
injured woman has been shifted to hospital for treatment in a
critical condition," said a police
»
|
|
It's official: Indian students shunning
Britain
There has been a 24 percent drop in the number of Indian students
coming to Britain to study during the 2011-12 academic year,
latest official figures show, reflecting concerns generated due to
visa restrictions imposed
»
|
|
 President calls for judicial reforms to take centre-stage
As the
outcry for a speedy justice delivery system gains momentum in the
wake of the Delhi gang-rape, President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday
called for
»
|
|
|
|
Picture of the Day |
|
 |
|
President Pranab Mukherjee, Union
Minister for Communications and Information Technology Kapil
Sibal, Union Minister for Minority Affairs K. Rahman Khan and
other dignitaries at the release of the Commemorative Postage
Stamp on Shaikhul Hind’s “Silk Letter Movement” & 60th Session
of Shaikhul Hind’s Silk Letter Movement Centenary, in New
Delhi on January 11, 2013. |
|
|
|
Recommend the story to
your friends |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Comments
|
Quick links