NEW DELHI: India, while rejecting the proposal of Pakistan to carry out an investigation through the United Nations into the violation of the ceasefire accord on the Line of Control (LoC), said on Monday that mutual differences should be solved through the Simla Accord and Lahore Declaration and third party mediation was unacceptable. While talking to the Indian media, Spokesman of Indian Foreign Ministry Akbarud Din said the Indian government was serious in holding a mutual dialogue in a peaceful atmosphere, but in return what Pakistan gave was exposed before the foreign secretaries level talks. He said that it was up to Pakistan if it wanted to increase or decrease the tension and an appropriate reply would be given to the efforts made by Pakistan in this regard. He said that Pakistan and its security forces should abandon the current aggression on the LoC and international border. Akbarud Din said that military observers of UNO were not carrying out practical work. – Online INP adds: The Indian troops once again violated the ceasefire and resorted to unprovoked firing on the Line of Control (LoC) in the Kailer Sector near Bagh district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the ceasefire violation by the Indian troops happened on Monday afternoon. Pakistani troops befittingly responded to unprovoked Indian firing and silenced their guns. A total of 14 Pakistani nationals have been killed in the last week in unprovoked Indian security forces shelling along the LoC and working boundary. All those killed and injured were civilians. Meanwhile, India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said Pakistan’s attempt to involve the UN in the ‘border issue’was nothing but an old tactic of trying to internationalise the events in Kashmir. “If they are going to do unprovoked firing, India will retaliate with more than adequate measures. This kind of adventurism will prove costly to them. They are

doing the same old thing of internationalising the issue,” BJP’s national spokesperson Nalin Kohli told journalists. “Pakistan should instead reflect on the conditions within their country. It is an unsafe place, its economy is in a shambles and the political leadership does not have much stake,” he added. Meanwhile, another BJP spokesperson Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi alleged that there was a factory of terrorism in Pakistan. “What are they going to tell the world about it? The Government of India is giving a befitting reply on the border, if they violate the ceasefire,we can’t bewelcoming them,” he said. Earlier on Saturday, Foreign Affairs Adviser of Pakistan Sartaj Aziz had dispatched a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Kimoon for assistance in solving the long-running dispute with India over Kashmir. In his letter, Sartaj Aziz has accused India of deliberate and unprovoked violations of the ceasefire and has blamed NewDelhi for the deteriorating situation along the LoC.