NEW YORK – A report in Newsweek, an American weekly magazine, has drawnattention to Pakistan’s rebuttal of the recent Indian allegations aboutwhat New Delhi called “unprovoked ceasefire violations” by Pakistani armyalong the Line of Control sector in the disputed Kashmir region.
Quoting a Pakistani official, the report said that Islamabad, in turn,blamed New Delhi for both the incidents.
“The Indian Army resorted to unprovoked fire in Nekrun Sector, targetingmilitary posts and civilians alike across the Line of Control withautomatic weapons, rockets and heavy mortars,” the Pakistani official wasquoted as saying by Newsweek.
“These unilateral provocations were responded [to] appropriately by [the]Pakistan Army,” the official said.
“Indian Army persistently targets civil population residing on its side ofthe LoC while they are busy in routine chores,” the official added. “Suchunprofessional and unethical acts are confounded by allegations ofsponsoring terrorism across LOC.”
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Newsweek also carried the Pakistani Foreign Ministry’s statement accusingIndia of wounding three civilians at the village of Andrala Nar incross-border shelling against the Hotspring and Jandrot Sectors.
A senior Indian diplomat, it said, was summoned in response to thatincident, which the ministry argued was intended to distract from adeteriorating humanitarian and security situation in the Illegally IndianOccupied Jammu and Kashmir.
The disputed territory has been in an effective state of lockdown sinceAugust of last year, when India removed Jammu and Kashmir State’ssemi-autonomous status and flooded it with paramilitary forces, it waspointed out.
