The forces in Lahore and Sialkot had already been alerted to the possibility of firing by the Indian Army. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
The forces in Lahore and Sialkot had already been alerted to the possibility of firing from the Indian side of the Indo-Pak border following incidents throughout the week.
The firing started at 9:20pm and it hadn't stopped till the filing of the report.
A day earlier, the Indian army had triggered an exchange of fire from both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) after violating ceasefire on three occasions, first near Sialkot and then twice near Kotli in the Nakial sector.
Clashes in recent weeks across the heavily militarised LoC, which divides the Himalayan territory between India and Pakistan, have raised the temperature between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
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@Alter Ego:
Read Hamood-ur-Rehman commission report, read about kargill, read about Abottabad commission report. Opinion piece ona newspaper is not a fact, an investigative report by commission is.
Do you think both countries will propser after war??
All this tension just to hide the reality of Mumbai attacks. The reality is out & now they have to take our attentions some where else.
@Naseer Muhammad: Bro, thanks for opening eyes abt my country.I think we Indian shd hand over our country to pakistan(Zaid hamid to be specific :))) for some reliefs from problems u mentioned.
Anyways, Happy independence day
Alter Ego: "How long before the truth on the so-called ‘Mumbai masacres’ comes out?"
You tell me! That issue has long been forgotten in India and you are still stuck onto it. Of course you must have not read the newer/follow-up news reports about those accusations. Why is it that most Pakistani youth never argue with reason and instead stick only to what they like? I know most such Pakistanis who like sticking to partial truths and instead of reading whole articles, they only "pick" something that suits their own hatred-filled thinking for India/Indians. Be it Gujarat massacre, Kashmir history, UN resolution, Mumbai attack incident - Pakistanis tend to select only the stuff that suits them from such things, without caring to read its background info and then they argue how "Indian Hindus hate Muslims". Grow up.
Nobody learns from past mistakes,I think Indians forgotten the escalation of 2000-2001 when Indians brought two attacking/fighting crops discreetly in war zone and they were beaten in "time &space" by Pak Armed forces and that was honeymoon period of newly Indian-American marriage and suddenly got naughty.Indians not learned from our mistakes when we were doing as told by our great double gamer master or ally.
The rising Kashmir tensions and Pakistan-bashing help Indian politicians take the focus away from the daily indignities suffered by the ordinary Indians:
India as home to the world's largest population of poor hungry and illiterate people.
Multiple fierce insurgencies in North East, North West and Central India.
India's growing twin deficits, falling rupee and shrinking GDP in USD terms. At current exchange rate, India's GDP is down to $1.66 trillion, more than $200 billion less than it was in Fiscal 2011-12.
India leading the world in open defecation.
Over 200,000 Indian farmers' suicides in the last ten years.
Tens of millions of missing daughters in India.
India's high disease burdens high rates of premature deaths.
Any time there is any chance of normalisation of relations with Pakistan, the Indians will engineer some act of violence such as the so-called 'attack' on their parliament in 2001.
How long before the truth on the so-called 'Mumbai masacres' comes out? Read The Times of India:
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-14/india/405691081satish-verma-ips-officer-home-ministry
Still smarting from the loss of 5 soldiers killed by the Pakistan army.
India has no intention of ever holding sincere talks with Pakistan on Kashmir or any other issue between the two countries.
So frankly, why bother?
C'mon man, its 'bout time we test our ballistic missiles (that are usually considered to be bought from N. Korea and repainted) on live Indian sites...