Click to play videoSrinagar: The ceasefire agreement, which had given relief for Indian and Pakistani troops after years of bloody skirmishes no longer holds good as there have been violations after violations from the Pakistani side and there's no let up in infiltration.
The latest bit of infiltration came on Monday afternoon when 12 Pakistani troops crossed into the Nowgam sector in Kupwara on the Line of Control. An altercation followed and then firing, resulting in one Indian jawan being killed and four dead on the Pakistani side.
The Nowgam incident is the most serious violation of the 2003 ceasefire to date. It is an international border, 60 km long, although Pakistan refers to it as a working boundary.
So far, more than six ceasefire violations by Pakistan troops have been reported and the Army fears many more are in waiting. The incident follows cross border firing in Tangdhar, Poonch, Rajauri and Samba - areas that lie on routes favoured by terrorists.
A flag meeting is being called although the Pakistani army has denied knowledge of any such incident. Monday's firing takes place 20 days after the suicide attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul and after successive blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad.
With six ceasefire violations so far, the Indian Army expects more cross border firing and infiltration attempts. As Kashmir heads towards elections, the Indian Army says Pakistan's aim is to aid inflitration, push in groups as large as 20-30 armed men and disrupt polls.
Meanwhile, nobody is igmoring the warning signals by Pakistan's army or intelligence establishment - be they to its own unstable civilian authority or to the US - that whatever its preoccupations with the Taliban and Afghanistan, Pakistan's strategic and political concerns will always lie on the eastern border with India.
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