JAMMU: Pakistan violated ceasefire along the Line of Control ( LoC ) in J&K’s Poonch district for the third consecutive day on Monday afternoon.

“Around 12.15pm, Pakistani troops opened unprovoked fire using small arms and resorted to heavy mortar-shelling along the LoC in Poonch’s Shahpur sector. The Indian Army retaliated effectively and there has been no injury on our side,” Jammu-based defence spokesperson Lt Col Devender Anand said.

Sources from Poonch said the cross-border fire exchange continued intermittently till late evening.

On Sunday afternoon, Pakistan breached the truce along the LoC in Poonch’s Shahpur and Qasba sectors to which Indian troops retaliated befittingly . A day prior to that, Pakistani troops had opened unprovoked fire and shelled mortars in the district’s Mankot sector.

Pakistan made a similar breach of truce in Poonch’s Mankot and Mendhar sectors on March 3 as well.

