Director General Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General BabarIftikhar on Thursday said that Pakistan and India have agreed to restorethe 2003 ceasefire agreement along the Line of Control (LoC) and theWorking Boundary, suggesting a new push to defuse years of tensions.
According to the details, while talking to BOL News, DG ISPR Major GeneralBabar Iftikhar said that the Indian Ceasefire violations caused the mostcasualties in 2018, whereas 2019 saw the highest number of ceasefireviolations in which 310 civilians were killed and about 1,600 were injured.
Major General Babar Iftikhar said there have been more than 13,500ceasefire violations since 2003. He added that the hot line contact betweenPakistan and India has been going on since 1987.
The tensions have been simmering between the two nuclear-armed neighbourssince 2016. Both the sides accused the other for the deadlock in thedialogue process.
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Pakistan, however, insisted that it was always willing for talks withoutany preconditions. India, though, remains adamant that Pakistan mustaddress its concerns on the alleged cross border terrorism.
Today in an unexpected development the top military commanders of Pakistanand India also agreed that in case of any issue, restraint will beexercised and the matter will be resolved through utilisation of existingmechanisms of hotline contacts and border flag meetings at localcommander’s level.
