Ceasefire violation: Indian forces fire across LoC

Shelling at the Nakyal sector started at 1:50pm, causing a state of panic in the area.

KOTLI: Indian forces again allegedly violated the Pakistan-India 2003 ceasefire agreement by indulging in unprovoked firing and shelling in the Nakyal Sector at the Line of Control (LoC) on Sunday, Express News reported.

According to initial reports, the shelling started at 1:50pm, causing a state of panic in the area.

Cross border violations from the Indian side had earlier injured three people in the locality.

This is not the first time that Indian forces have been allegedly involved in unprovoked shelling in the Nakyal sector of the LoC that has recently scene allegations of cross-border firing from both sides in recent weeks.

The attack is the latest in a spate of recent cross-border skirmishes between the two nuclear-armed neighbours who have fought three wars since independence from the British rule in 1947, two over the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir.

The two sides agreed to a ceasefire along the LoC in November 2003, but skirmishes have flared across the heavily-militarised Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border in Kashmir, in recent weeks, with both sides blaming each other for having violated the agreement.