Pak violates ceasefire at J&K border

Hours before Prime Mini-ster, Narendra Modi’s, visit to Katra, the base-camp to revered Mata Vaishnodevi shrine, to inaugurate a su-per-speciality hospital and address a university convocation on Tuesday, Pakista-ni border guards fired sm-all arms to target a BSF forward post along the Intern-ational Border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district. The BSF returned fire but no casualties were reported in the exchange.

The BSF officials said that the Pakistan Rangers violated the November 2003 ceasefire by opening 4-5 rounds on one of its forward posts in Samba sector on Tuesday morning “without any provocation from our side”. In Siaklote, the Pakistan Rangers officials termed the incident as “minor”.