The military's media wing, in a statement on Friday, said that Indian forces targeted civilian population along the Line of Control after being "humiliated" at the hands of local freedom fighters in occupied Kashmir, opposite Neelum Valley on the night of November 7/8.
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[OneIndia] At least eleven Pakistain Army soldiers killed on Friday in retaliatory firing by Indian Army in response to ceasefire violations from across Line of Control. The list of Pakistain Army soldiers killed includes two-three Pakistain Army Special Service Group (SSG) commandoes.
16 Pakistain Army soldiers were maimed in the Indian Army firing in which a large number of Pakistain Army bunkers, fuel dumps, and launch pads have also been destroyed.
Pakistain Army's corpse count in Indian retaliatory firing has risen to 11, number of injured has also risen to 16. Indian Army retaliated strongly to Pakistain's unprovoked ceasefire violations at multiple locations today, Indian Army sources told ANI.
According to intercepts of Pakistain Army's communication, those killed included two commandos from its Special Service Group.
The Indian retaliation came after Pak forces resorted to heavy shelling in several areas in north Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, killing four security personnel and six civilians.
Four security forces personnel were among 10 people killed in multiple ceasefire violations in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday as Pakistain intensified cross-border shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) between Gurez and Uri sectors and in retaliation, Indian troops inflicted casualties and caused extensive damage to Pakistain Army's infrastructure.
Three Indian Army personnel, a BSF sub-inspector and six non-combatants were killed while four security forces personnel and eight civilians were maimed.
Srinagar-based defence front man Col Rajesh Kalia said Pakistain used mortars and other weapons and deliberately targeted civilian areas.
The Indian troops retaliated strongly causing casualties and substantial damage to Pakistain Army''s infrastructure across the LoC, he said.
"Several ammunition dumps, FOL dumps and multiple terrorist launch pads have been damaged," he said.
"Pakistain initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation along the LoC spread across multiple sectors to include Dawar, Keran, Uri and Naugam. Three Indian Army soldiers have been killed in action and three soldiers injured," Col Kalia said, adding the nation salutes their supreme sacrifice.
Two non-combatants were killed in Kamalkote sector, also in Uri, while a woman was killed in Balkote area in Haji Peer sector, the officials added.
They said apart from various places in Uri, the ceasefire violations were reported from Izmarg in Gurez sector of Bandipora district and Keran sector of Kupwara district. A defence official in Jammu said Pak troops violated ceasefire twice in Poonch district.
"Around 1345 and 1445 hours today, Mighty Pak Army initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing with small arms and shelling with mortars along LoC in sector in Sawjian in Poonch," he said, adding Indian troops retaliated in a befitting manner.
Earlier, Col Kalia said the Army foiled an infiltration bid, which was aided by the ceasefire violation, along the LoC in the Keran sector.
"Suspicious movement was observed by our troops at the forward posts along the LoC in Keran sector (in north Kashmir''s Kupwara district) today. The suspected infiltration bid was foiled by alert troops," he said, adding.
This was the second infiltration attempt within a week. The earlier unsuccessful bid in Machil sector during the intervening night of November 7- 8 was foiled in which three bully boyz were killed.
Three Army soldiers, including a Captain, and a BSF jawan also bit the dust during the operation. In New Delhi, BSF officials said SI Rakesh Doval, 39, deployed at the force''s artillery battery at the LoC in Baramulla was killed after he sustained head injury in the firing around 1315 hours. Constable Vasu Raja sustained splinter injuries on his arms and cheeks. He was deployed at the same forward defended location, they said, adding the constable is stable.
Almost all BSF units along the LoC are facing heaving firing since morning and an effective retaliation by the troops, artillery regiment and support weapons has been mounted, a senior officer of the force said. The BSF works under the operational command of the Army at the LoC..
According to official data, Pakistain has resorted to 4,052 incidents of ceasefire violations in the current year as against 3,233 in 2019.
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