Pakistan maintaining state of alert and vigilance along LoC: Army

Press Trust of India  |  Islamabad 

The Army was maintaining the "state of alert and vigilance" along the Line of Control where it claimed that the was resorting to "intermittent firing".

Army Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, updating the security situation, said that Indian troops initiated fire in Neza pir, Pandu, Khanjar Munawar, Battal and Baghsar sectors.

said Pakistani troops violated ceasefire at two places by targeting forward posts and villages along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir, breaking a two-day lull in cross-border skirmishes.

Indian officials said the firing and shelling by in Akhnoor and Poonch sectors in Jammu region, however, caused no casualty.

Maj Gen Ghafoor said that there was no casualties on side during last 24 hours in the intermittent firing by

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First Published: Mon, March 04 2019. 21:40 IST