It is in clear violation of the ceasefire agreements between the two countries
SIALKOT: Intermittent cross-border firing and shelling are as old as the Pakistan-India territorial dispute. The firing causes fatalities, injuries and serious damage to settlements in border areas. Now it has become more frequent to the extent that the relevant offices of the two countries only resort to issuing formal statements or summon each other’s diplomats to lodge their protest, either of which does not serve the purpose of stopping the practice.
Although firing and shelling from across the border is silenced by retaliatory firing by the forces here, it is in clear violation of the ceasefire agreements between the two countries.
Iqra Mahmood
Published in The Express Tribune, April 13th, 2018.
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