ear-wise, the border infringements shot up astronomically from just 1 in 2004 to a staggering 4,645 in 2020 - or a rough daily average of 13 - a year after India's sensational air-strikes in Balakot (Feb. 2019) and the country acquired a sleek fleet of Rafale fighter jets. (July 2020).
May 8, 2021"India condemns, in the strongest terms, the deliberate targeting of innocent civilians by Pakistani forces," MEA said.
November 15, 2020Apart from this, there were also 242 incidents of cross-border firing from January 1 to August 31, in the Jammu region, along the international border with Pakistan.
September 19, 2020If the meeting is to happen, it would be the second 'closed-door' consultation since August on the situation in Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370.
January 15, 2020On December 18, Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat had said that the situation along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir could escalate any time and that India is prepared for a befitting response.
December 26, 2019The latest ceasefire violation comes two days after Pakistan claimed that it lost three of its soldiers on the LoC firing by Indian forces.
August 17, 2019The UNSC will meet today to discuss India’s move to revoke Article 370, days after Pakistan wrote a letter on the issue to the world body.
August 16, 2019Earlier on Tuesday, Two Pakistani soldiers and an Indian soldier were killed in heavy firing by Indian and Pakistani troops along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir after Pakistan resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation.
July 31, 2019"The ceasefire violations by India are a threat to regional peace and security and may lead to a strategic miscalculation," said a statement by the Foreign Office.
November 3, 2018The Foreign Ministry said that a 65-year-old man was killed while a boy was injured in Indian firing on August 18 in Dana Sector along the LoC.
August 19, 2018Pak Rangers once again violate ceasefire by targeting Indian positions in Ramgarh sector of Jammu division with high trajectory weapon firing; three seriously injured BSF men have been sent to hospital
June 13, 2018India and Pakistan need to talk without putting preconditions in a bid to restore peace in Jammu and Kashmir, the CPI-M has said. The offer of talks with Pakistan that Home Minister Rajnath Singh has extended should be taken forward, an editorial in the CPI-M journal “People’s Democracy” said. “But it cannot be conditional …...
June 7, 2018The Jammu & Kashmir CM reflects her concern over the situation in a tweet a day before the visit of Home Minister Rajnath Singh to Jammu and Kashmir.
June 6, 2018As Pakistani Rangers continued shelling on the international border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the security forces have a free hand to respond as they deem fit if the neighbouring country continued the offensive. Speaking at the Border Security Force’s (BSF) 16th investiture ceremony function here, Singh...
May 22, 2018Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday termed Pakistan’s ceasefire violations during the holy month of Ramadan as “highly unfortunate”. Visiting bereaved families in R.S.Pura sector where indiscriminate shelling by Pakistan last week left four civilians dead, she described the killings as highly unfortunate as they occurred when the holy month had just...
May 22, 2018India shares a 3,323-km-long border with Pakistan, of which 221 km of the IB and 740 km of the LoC fall in Jammu and Kashmir.
April 4, 2018One Indian soldier was injured as Indian and Pakistan armies traded heavy fire on Thursday on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri and Poonch districts, police said. Police sources said Pakistan army resorted to unprovoked firing at Indian positions on the LoC in Laam area of Nowshera sector of Rajouri on...
March 29, 2018