New Delhi: Pakistan Army on Friday violated the ceasefire between the two countries and fired at Indian positions in Tutmari Gali sector in Jammu and Kashmir. "The Pakistan Army started firing at our positions in Tutmarigali in Kashmir along the Line of Control at 1915 hours today and our troops also retaliated in equal measure," Army sources said in Delhi.
The Pakistani Army also used mortars and small arms to attack Indian posts, they said. The firing has more or less stopped now, they said. India and Pakistan were engaged in a major stand-off in January 2013 after Pakistani troops along with their Special Forces and LeT terrorists intruded and mutilated the bodies of two soldiers Lance Naiks Sudhakar Singh and Hemraj and beheaded one of them.
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03:33 AM, May 25, 2013
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir state police and army troops in a joint operation unearthed a large cache of arms and ammunition from a location close to the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan in Poonch district on Saturday evening. A defence spokesman in Jammu said the cache was a "war-like store". "Based on specific intelligence inputs about cache, a joint search operation was launched by the army and Jammu...
05:48 AM, May 13, 2013
Poonch: Goods worth over Rs 1 crore were traded across the Line of Control (LoC) on Wednesday between Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) and Jammu and Kashmir at Chakan-Da-Bagh crossing point in Poonch, officials said. As many as 25 trucks rolled out from the Trade Facilitation Centre (TFC) in Poonch to PoK, they said, adding, these trucks carried bags of banana, onion and tamarind worth Rs 62,05,260. From PoK, four trucks...
08:55 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Jammu: Army chief General Bikram Singh on Tuesday reviewed counter-infiltration and security measures in Jammu and Kashmir and visited forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC). The Army chief, who is on a two-day visit to the state, chaired a meeting at the 16 Corps headquarters in Nagrota, where he was briefed by field commanders about security and counter-infiltration measures in J&K, a defence spokesman said. General Singh later...
06:03 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Washington: Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has shown Pak-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) as a part of Pakistan in its recently released global map. There is no mention of the Line of Control as is the common practice to refer to the two sides of LoC as India-controlled Kashmir and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. The interactive map was released by WikiLeaks on Monday, so as to help people to search into its 1.7 million cables in a...
08:30 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Barrackpore: Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh on Sunday said there is "peace and tranquility" along the Line of Actual Control with China. "There is no problem. There is peace and tranquility on the Sino-India border," he told reporters Barrackpore in reply to a query. Singh's statement came a day ahead of the bi-annual Army commanders' conference in Delhi starting on Monday. The conference will be attended by the six operational...
04:30 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Mathura: The wife of slain soldier Lance Naik Hemraj was duped of Rs 10 lakh on Friday in the presence of her brother-in-law and a relative near a petrol pump in the outskirts of Kosi town area. In her complaint, Dharmvati, the widow of Hemraj said that one Amit Kumar, who claimed that he was an Army officer and sent by the Army Headquarters, approached her at her native Shernagar...
07:50 AM, Apr 06, 2013
New Delhi: The visa-on-arrival facility for senior citizens of Pakistan, which was put on hold by India following heightened tensions along the Line of Control (LoC), has been restarted from March 31. The facility was put on hold hours before its operationalisation on January 15 after an Indian soldier was allegedly beheaded and another was brutally murdered by Pakistani army. The Wagah border is also now open for Pakistani senior...
07:02 PM, Apr 05, 2013
After suspending visa on arrival for Pakistani senior citizens, India may put on hold the proposed group visa facility to the nationals of that country in the wake of the unease in bilateral ties following the killing of two Indian soldiers along the LoC. ...
11:26 AM, Mar 10, 2013
Pakistani troops on Tuesday violated ceasefire to provide cover fire to an infiltrating militant who was gunned down in a fierce gunbattle with security forces along the Line of Control in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir. "At around 1345 hours, troops guarding the borderline observed suspicious movements at Keri sector in Rajouri," PRO Defence SN Acharya said. ...
11:53 PM, Feb 26, 2013
Strongly rejecting Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's suggestion of allowing an OIC fact- finding mission to Jammu and Kashmir to assess rights situation there, India today said the grouping has no "locus standi" on such matters and termed suggestions to this effect by Pakistan Foreign Minister as "propagandist". ...
02:33 PM, Feb 08, 2013
Goods worth over Rs 1.15 crore were traded across the Line of Control (LoC) on Thursday between Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) and Jammu and Kashmir at Chakan-Da-Bagh crossing point in Poonch, officials said. ...
07:01 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Pakistan's main opposition PML-N has stepped up its demand for creation of an independent judicial commission to probe the Kargil conflict of 1999 following revelations by retired army officers that former military ruler Pervez Musharraf had masterminded the operation. ...
01:25 PM, Feb 03, 2013
There is a new war of words over a war fought 13 years ago. A book by a former Pakistani officer points towards more blunders by General Pervez Musharraf and that he may have actually spent a night on the Indian side after crossing the Line of Control (LoC) ahead of the Kargil war. ...
07:31 AM, Feb 02, 2013
The trade and bus services resumes from the Line of Control in Poonch. 88 passengers from India and 108 from Pakistan travelled on the trans-LoC bus on Monday. ...
10:34 AM, Jan 28, 2013
Days after the skirmishes at the Line of Control, the Indo-Pak trade and bus services are set to resume from Monday. The gates at Chakan-Da-Bagh in Poonch district is likely to open for the routine trade and travel between the two sides. ...
01:27 PM, Jan 27, 2013
India on Wednesday said tensions on the Line of Control (LoC) have "reduced" after talks between the two countries' top military commanders but there will be no hasty decisions for normalising relations with Pakistan as it is "too early" to do so. Talking to reporters, Defence Minister AK Antony said infiltration attempts are going on even in extreme winters and wondered that "if this is the case now, what will...
06:53 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Against the backdrop of chill in relations over the beheading incident, India on Monday said ties with Pakistan can move forward in a "sensible and calibrated" way once the "dust settles". "I think it is important that we let little time go by so that the dust, as it was, settles. Then in a sensible and calibrated manner we can move forward," External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said. ...
06:18 PM, Jan 21, 2013
The aggression on the Line of Control has taken a toll on performing arts now with curtains being drawn on plays to be performed by Pakistani artists just hours before starting. ...
11:59 AM, Jan 19, 2013
Pakistan High Commissioner Salman Bashir on Friday ruled out a probe into the recent ceasefire violations and the killing of soldiers at the Line of Control (LoC), saying things were at very initial stages, and the need was to first create an atmosphere conducive for it. ...
05:51 PM, Jan 18, 2013
