Pakistan summons senior Indian diplomat over ‘ceasefire violations’

Pakistan on Tuesday summoned India’s diplomat Gaurav
Ahluwalia to register its protest over the alleged ceasefire violations by the
Indian forces along the Line of Control (LoC), reported news agency PTI. The
Foreign Office, in a statement, said that “indiscriminate and unprovoked firing”
in Tandar sector of the LoC on Monday killed three people.

The Indian forces “along the LoC and the Working
Boundary (WB) have been continuously targeting civilian populated areas with
artillery fire, heavy-caliber mortars and automatic weapons,” PTI quoted
the foreign office as saying.

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In this year alone, 19 people died and 191 were injured in 2,387
ceasefire violations, the Foreign Office said.

The Indian side was called upon to respect the 2003 Ceasefire
Understanding, investigate this and other such incidents of deliberate ceasefire
violations and maintain peace along the LoC and the WB, it said.

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On Monday, Pakistan opened fire along LoC in Jammu and
Kashmir’s Macchil sector, leaving a soldier injured. The soldier was taken to a
hospital, and his condition was stable.

According to a PTI report, the Pakistani army has violated
the ceasefire 45 times this month.