India accuses Pakistan of violation
India's army yesterday accused Pakistan of violating a ceasefire along their militarised border, accusing it of trying to push Islamic militants into divided Kashmir under the cover of fire.
A defence spokesman said Indian military posts in southern Kashmir came under small arms and mortar fire from across the border in a pre-dawn skirmish with Pakistani troops that lasted around two hours.
"Pakistani troops opened unprovoked firing at Indian posts and targeted several positions in Poonch" district, Lieutenant Colonel Biplab Nath said in Indian Kashmir's winter capital Jammu.
"Our soldiers retaliated to the firing," Nath said, adding there were no casualties on the Indian side in Poonch, a hilly Kashmir district some 240 kilometres (150 miles) northwest of Jammu.
The Press Trust of India quoted an Indian commander as saying dozens of mortar shells exploded around Indian posts.
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