Army Captain among four soldiers killed in Pakistan firing along LoC in J-K's Rajouri

NEW DELHI: In the absence of any diplomatic detente the deadly war of attrition between India and Pakistan along the 778-km Line of Control (LoC) and 198-km International Boundary (IB) in Jammu & Kashmir has taken a sharp turn for the worse ever since the surgical strikes of September 2016. There were as many as 860 ceasefire violations (CFVs) along the LoC and another 120 along the IB in 2017 the highest-ever such tally in over 15 years. The number of CFVs has already touched 241 across the LoC in the first 36 days of this year claiming the lives of nine Indian soldiers as per Army statistics. Army chief General Bipin Rawat says the Pak Army is suffering three to four times the number of casualties compared to us in the CFVs. Given the current mood these long and bloody tit-for-tat fire assaults across the border with even light artillery guns heavy mortars and anti-tank guided missiles often coming into play from both the sides are not going to ebb anytime soon. A day after a young captain and three soldiers were killed in heavy shelling by Pakistani forces in Rajouri district Army vice-chief Lt-General Sarath Chand on Monday warned of strong retaliatory action to avenge the losses https://growthhackers.com/members/kkdomino. That (retaliation) goes without saying. I think I don t have to say that. (Our) action will speak for itself he said. Added another senior officer Pakistan is hurt more than us...that s why the Pak Army refuses to give its casualty figures to its own Parliament. We estimate 130-140 Pak soldiers were killed in our cross-border firings and tactical operations last year. But Indian soldiers have also paid a heavy price. Of the 62 who laid down their lives in J&K last year 15 were killed in CFVs 17 in infiltration and other incidents along the LoC and 30 in counter-terrorism operations in the hinterland. I don t think the situation will get better in the short term. The atmosphere has been completely vitiated by the Pak Army strategy to send terrorists across to carry out IED blasts mutilate our soldiers and attack garrisons. It leaves no space for any confidence-building like a ceasefire agreement said former Northern Army Command chief Lt-Gen D S Hooda (retd) who oversaw the surgical strikes on September 29 2016. Indian Para-Special Forces had conducted the surgical strikes against terror launch pads close to Pak Army posts in four different locations in PoK to avenge the killing of 19 Indian soldiers in a suicide attack at the Army camp in Uri earlier that month. That in effect triggered the sharp escalatory spiral with Pakistan indulging in 78 and 88 CFVs in October and November 2016. India also began to pro-actively dominate the LoC with pre-emptive and punitive fire assaults on Pak Army posts aiding infiltration which became all the more fiercer after two of its soldiers were beheaded in a BAT (border action team) operation in Krishna Ghati sector in Poonch on May 1 last year. The Pak Army was obviously not about to roll over and play dead. It responded in full measure sometimes deliberately targeting civilian centres in the Jammu region. JAMMU: Pakistani troops opened fire and lobbed mortars at Indian positions along the International border and LoC in three sectors of Jammu and Rajouri districts overnight a BSF officer said today. Yesterday a civilian was killed and two persons were injured in the Pakistani shelling along the IB in Kanachak belt of Jammu district raising the death toll in the ceasefire violations since Thursday last to 12 and injuries to over 60. Schools continue to remain closed along the LoC and IB in Jammu region. There was night-long firing along the IB in Pargwal Math R S Pura Arnia and Ramgarh sectors (of Jammu and Samba districts). It stopped at 0545 hours today the officer said. Pakistan Rangers resumed shelling along the IB in Kanachak sector of Jammu last night he said. Pakistan troops also resumed heavy shelling along the LoC in Bhawani Karali Said Numb and Sher Makri areas of Rajouri district last evening officials said. Seven civilians three Armymen and two BSF personnel have so far been killed in the ceasefire violations. While a BSF jawan and a teenage girl were killed on Thursday four persons including two civilians and one BSF jawan and an Army jawan were killed and over 40 others injured in the Pakistani firing on Friday. Three civilians and an Army jawan were killed and 16 others injured in the ceasefire violations on Saturday. BSF officials said authorities were keeping a close eye on the situation and have rushed police teams to affected areas to ensure prompt assistance to the people. People have been asked to stay indoors and not to touch any suspicious object in their area as it could be an unexploded mortar shell he said. Firing from across the border started on Thursday last and has forced 40 000 people to flee their homes and take shelter in rehabilitation camps or with their relatives. India begins talks for missile shield with Russia By: Express News Service | Jammu | Published: January 21 2018 10:19 am A villager in R S Pura Jammu trying to salvage his belongings after his home was hit. (Source: PTI photo) Top News Bengaluru: Students sell pakodas in convocation robes to protest PM Modi s comments on employmentNot fair to others says Rahul Dravid as he questions his Rs 50 lakh rewardAbducted on R-Day from bus Delhi boy rescued; one kidnapper shot dead another injuredAs guns fell silent on both sides a tenuous calm prevailed along the international border from Pargwal to Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir since Saturday evening. Border was almost calm except a few rounds/shells in Arnia area official sources said. However BSF troops were maintaining alert they added. Meanwhile the death toll in Saturday s exchange of fire along the border has risen to five as one more army personnel succumbed to injuries at the hospital. With this the death toll on the Indian side in January this year has risen to 12 including three Army men three BSF personnel and six civilians with injuries to nearly 50 others. Of them ten have died during the last four days. Also Read: J-K: Four more killed in Pakistan border firing January toll almost equal to all of 2017 The death toll has been almost equal to the number of casualties on the Indian side during entire 2017 when nearly a dozen people including security force personnel were killed and less than three dozen injured on the entire border from Kathua to Poonch district. Most of the villages along the international border continue to bear a deserted look as nearly the entire population had shifted to safer places in view of escalation along the border during the past four days. Sources said most people had shifted to their relatives. Among those killed on Saturday were Sepoy Mandeep Singh of Punjab s Sangrur district posted in K G Sector in Poonch district and Ghara Singh 17 of Kapoorpur village Ghar Singh 35 of Bera Suchetgarh village and Tasem Lal 35 of Gajansoo village in Kanachak sector. Apart from BSF ASI Jarnail Singh posted in Suchetgarh and an SSB jawan at the Kanachak police station the injured included civilians in Suchetgarh Samka village Gulabgarh Basti Abdal village and Gajansoo village. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Top News Kapil Sharma to be back on Sony TV in March to shoot promo today Brahmin outfit threatens stir against Manikarnika No Comments. RS PURA: Living with the constant fear of Pakistani shelling displaced border dwellers are scared of returning to their homes and are demanding early sanction of the promised piece of land in safer zones and construction of bunkers. The demands were made by people putting up at three relief camps set up by the state government here for border dwellers who have been bearing the brunt of heavy Pakistani shelling. 12 persons including five security personnel have been killed and over 50 others injured in the unprovoked and indiscriminate firing by Pakistan in the five districts of Jammu Kathua and Samba along the IB and LoC since Thursday last. Last month the Centre gave a sanction for construction of 14 460 underground bunkers at a cost of Rs 415.73 crore for safety of people living along the LoC and the IB in Jammu division. The BJP had promised five marlas (1361.25 sq ft) of land for border villagers during the election campaigning in the state ahead of forming a government with the PDP in 2015. However last year the government informed the state legislative assembly that it had decided to construct bunkers in border districts instead of allotting five marlas of land to each family as shifting of population to another place would not be in the interest of the state or nation. What we are getting is only hollow promises and unabated firing from Pakistan over the last four years. The government needs to act and provide us the promised five marlas of land away from the firing zone for our safety Sudesh Kumari a resident of Beghwara Choga told PTI. Kumari is among 150 border residents camping at the Indian Training Institute (ITI) complex in this sector after one of her relatives lost his life in the Pakistani shelling along the International Border in Bhera village on Saturday. Hamara Jeena Haraam Ho Gaya hai (Our life has become a hell) she said as nearly three dozen women gathered to condole the demise of her brother-in-law Ghar Singh in the Pakistani shelling second the view. Singh was among six persons killed in R S Pura and Arnia sectors while 32 others were injured.The dead included a BSF jawan. Suneeta said We are living a life of uncertainty with no future. During firing we are even unable to help our children to move to safety she said adding the lurking threat of Pakistani shelling is taking a toll on our mental health. Making a passionate appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi 75-year-old Krishna Devi from Abdullian said With folded hands we want to say that we are not even safe in our homes as shells pierce the roof and walls and we should be helped on humanitarian grounds. Her grandson Pankaj Kumar said they are afraid to go back to their homes. The firing was intense (over the past week) and we fear it might continue till Republic Day he said. Kumari said they had a narrow escape while fleeing the village as a mortar shell missed them and landed on a tree. Had the shell not landed on the tree it would have hit the vehicle we were travelling in from the village to the rehabilitation camp she said. Kanta Devi a resident of Kapurpur and putting up at government boys higher secondary school said The truth is bitter - the government is not doing enough for our safety and security while the firing from across the border had increased manifold over the years . What we are going through we pray nobody else should face such a situation she said. Kastoori Lal said many VVIPs including deputy chief minister Nirmal Singh and Relief and Rehabilitation minister Javaid Mustafa Mir visited the camp since Saturday and extended condolences to families who lost their dear ones in the Pakistani firing and assured all possible help. How long we will stay at the camps? We want government to fulfil our demand of allotment of land at safer places and early construction of bunkers he said. He said there is no alternative to peace. We want peaceful atmosphere to return by strictly implementing the 2003 ceasefire agreement between the two countries as innocent people are getting killed and displaced on the either side. Health Minister Bali Bhagat said India has taken many initiatives to normalise relations with Pakistan but the neighbouring country needs to understand the futility of violence and reciprocate positively. Not only the people of Jammu and Kashmir but the entire country wants good neighbourly relations between India and Pakistan he said. However he said it is unfortunate that the firing from across the border is going on killing innocent persons and resulting in displacement of the people. The government was doing its best to provide relief to border residents displaced by the Pakistani firing. We have already issued a high alert all along the 449 km stretch from Kathua to Poonch-Rajouri comprising both IB and LoC.We have deployed 197 ambulances and identified 25 health institutions which are very close to villages affected by the firing he said. He said despite tasting defeat at the hands of India many times Pakistan continues its mischief. I am of the opinion that the central government is going to take a strong measure in coming days...from former Prime Minister A B Vajpayee to Prime Minister Narendra Modi we extended the hand of friendship keeping in mind the doctrine that friends can be changed but not neighbours. When we are getting shells from Pakistan we are compelled to direct that if they fire one shell respond it by 10 shells he said. The minister said the world understands that India is a powerful country and its Army has the capability to cross the border and hit terrorist targets and return without the knowledge of their counterparts. NEW DELHI: The Army today killed seven Pakistani soldiers and injured four in areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in retaliation for the killing of an Indian solider in Pakistani firing on Saturday. The Army s action occurred in the forward areas along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir s Poonch district. The action comes after an Indian https://www.dynomighty.com/user/kkfirstcry/ solider was killed in Pakistani firing along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir s Rajouri district on Saturday. Dhule jawan killed in Pak firing at LoCThe soldier was from Khalane village of Dhule district in Maharashtra.He was the sole breadwinner of his family. Meanwhile the Pakistan army said in a statement that four of its soldiers were killed along the LOC in the Jandrot Kotli sector. Separately the Army today also killed six Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) terrorists. We have recovered five bodies from the spot. I think six have died one body is being searched. They belonged to Jaish-e-Mohammed and information was that they are suicide attackers said SP Vaid director general of police Jammu and Kashmir. Vaid laid out how the action unfolded. Since past few days we were getting inputs about possible attempts to infiltrate from Uri sector. So ambushes were laid out in that area by Army J&K police & CRPF. In the morning exchange of fire took place in one of the ambushes said Vaid. Separately addressing Army members at an event of the 70th Army Day Army Chief General Bipin Rawat warned Pakistan to not compel India to step up its military offensive. Pakistan Army has been continuously trying to help terrorists sneak into India along LoC in J&K. We are using our might to teach them a lesson. If we are forced then we may resort to other action by stepping up military offensive he said. The Army chief also talked about Pakistan s non-stop ceasefire violations. Ceasefire violations by Pakistan happen frequently to which we respond effectively. We will take even stronger steps against our enemies if we are compelled to do so said General Rawat. Any anti-India activities will not be allowed to succeed he added. Pakistan has violated the ceasefire along the International Border (IB) and the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir more than 720 times last year the highest in the past seven years. According to data compiled by the Union Home Ministry Pakistani forces have violated ceasefire 724 times along the IB and the LoC till October in comparison to 449 times in 2016. As many as 12 civilians and 17 security personnel were killed in the firing from across the border until last October. Last week Rawat said Pakistan s nuclear bogey will be thoroughly exposed were there to be war with the western neighbour which often brandishes its short-range Nasr (Hatf-IX) nuclear missiles as a battlefield counter to India s Cold Start strategy of swift high-intensity conventional attacks into enemy territory. We will call their bluff. If given the task we will not say we cannot cross the border because they have nuclear weapons said Rawat. General Rawat also said that disputes along Line of Actual Control in the country s northern border with China are continuing with regular transgressions occurring. We are working to stop them said General Rawat. As for the Eastern front the Army chief said terrorism there has been limited. Read this story in Gujarati Our intelligence based and people-friendly operations in the north-east have managed to limit terrorism to a large extent he said. (With inputs from Agencies) Read this story in Bengali Read this story in Marathi By: Express News Service | Jammu | Updated: January 13 2018 10:26 pm Lance Naik Yogesh Muralidhar Bhadane. (source: ANI) Related News Charges filed against six for killing six J-K cops last JuneJ-K: Youth injured during Army firing in Kulgam cops file caseMilitants attack Army camp in J&K s KakporaAn Indian Army soldier was killed as Pakistani troops in yet another incident of ceasefire violation along the Line of Control on Saturday opened unprovoked firing on forward Indian positions in Sunderbani area of Rajouri district. Identifying the deceased as Launce Naik Yogesh Muralidhar Bhadane 28 sources said the Indian troops retaliated strongly and effectively. However during the exchange of fire he was grievously injured and succumbed to his injuries. Hailing from Maharashtra s Khalane village in Dhule district he is survived by his wife Punam Yogesh. Lance Naik Yogesh Muralidhar Bhadane was a brave and sincere soldier an army spokesperson said adding that the nation will always remain indebted to him for the supreme sacrifice and devotion to duty. Meanwhile a 12-year-old boy was seriously injured when an unexploded mortar shell went off near the LoC in Poonch district. Identified as Mohammad Iqbal 12 a resident of Shahpur he found the shell in an open field near Qasba village around 11:45 am and began fiddling with it sources said. The boy lost both his hands in the explosion. The mortar shell was apparently fired by Pakistani troops during cross-border shelling in the recent past and it had remained undetected sources said. 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Phir humbhi bitayeghe kuch din Gujarat ma dekhne k lia Kya ha is mitti ma.(1)(5) Reply Load More Comments Written by Man Aman Singh Chhina | Published: February 4 2018 3:25 am Feroza Bi at home in Jammu s Degwar village located between LoC and border fence. (Express photo) Related News Trade and gunfire go hand-in-hand at LoCCross-border travel suspended as tension grips LoC in Jammu & KashmirFour months on cross-LoC travel and trade via Poonch-Rawalkote to resume next weekThe Line of Control (LoC) is 100 metres in front the border fence about 900 metres behind. Somewhere in the middle are Feroza Bi and her 70 goats. Every time the guns boom from across the border like they had in recent weeks Feroza Bi follows a drill: I have no fear. What use is fear? When the firing starts I just round up all the goats and stay put in my house with them. What else can I do? she says. Feroza Bi lives alone in her house in Jammu s Degwar village that sits right at the edge of the LoC. In this village of about 3 000 people it s her house that is closest to what s considered one of the most dangerous borders in the world. The LoC cuts right through her field on which she grows maize and paddy. Here there is nothing to mark the LoC since Degwar village is located well ahead of the border fence that has been set up to prevent infiltration from across the Pakistan border. The hills bordering Feroza Bi s fields fall in Pakistan (Express photo) Feroza Bi isn t sure of her age. 60-70 maybe more. I do not know. I have been staying in this village for about 50 years she says her wrinkled face breaking into a smile. Her husband passed away four years ago and since then she has been on her own. She has four sons two of whom are with the Jammu and Kashmir Police and posted in Poonch and one in Saudi Arabia. Her eldest son lives with his family in nearby Poonch town. She says her sons keep asking her to leave the village and move in with them but she has always said no. I have 400 kanals of land here in the village and I have my 70 goats. Who will look after all this if I leave? I am going to stay here till the end of my life she says. Her daily routine stretches to fill in the hours. I have a lot of work. I clean my house tend to my animals and my fields. I hire boys from the village to work on my fields but I do everything else myself. Sometimes I go out of the village to attend family functions she says sitting in the courtyard of her mud house that s called a dhok in these parts. Her eldest son Rasheed says he often drops in to help his mother. My mother is attached to the land after all this is the land of our forefathers. So I don t force her to leave. I help my mother in whatever way I can says Rasheed giving only his first name. She says neighbours drop in to keep her company. (Express photo) Feroza Bi says that besides neighbours who drop in to keep her company the Army personnel help too. Seeing the Commanding Officer of the local battalion in the village she exchanges greetings. Pakistan Army post hamare sar ke upar hai (Pakistan Army post is right here at an elevation). But the Colonel sahib and Major sahib (Commanding Officer and Company Commander) make sure I am safe and provide us all the help they can they hold medical camps for the villagers and let us leave the village when we have to. What if the government insists on moving her to a safer place? How can they? Who will pay for my land my house and my goats? Iski keemat koi nahin de sakta (No one can put a price on them) she says. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Related News Army commanders of India Pakistan meet at LoC; agree to have mechanism for durable peace Pakistan violates ceasefire again Tags: LoC Prakash ShahFeb 4 2018 at 4:41 pmThese old men and women have emotional ties with their native farms animals and neighbors...They will never leave all these even if their family members sons provide them five star facilities in the city....They all prefer to live in their native till they are healthy and can walk and do daily works... And also it is good.(0)(0) Reply Pak ceasefire violation: On February 10 Captain Kundu would have turned 23.New Delhi: After four soldiers were killed in shelling by Pakistani troops along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir s Rajouri district on Sunday schools in the region have been closed. Pakistan intensified firing at Indian military posts and villages along the Line of Control or LoC in Poonch and Rajouri districts. One solider was injured in the filing. A teenage girl and a soldier were injured in Poonch.Here are the updates after Pak firing in Jammu and Kashmir s Rajouri: Feb 05 201813:51 (IST)Will continue to give a befitting reply : Army vice chiefIndia will continue to give a befitting reply and its action will speak for itself the Army s vice chief said today.The Pakistani Army has been supporting infiltration by terrorists along the border Army Vice Chief Sarath Chand said. We will continue with our process of giving a befitting reply he told reporters. (Our) action will speak for itself Chand added in response to a question on yesterday s incident.Feb 05 201813:19 (IST)Captain Kapil Kundu was just six days short of his 23rd birthdayCaptain Kapil Kundu was just six days short of his 23rd birthday. His Facebook page intro speaks volumes about his incredible spirit: Life should be big instead of being long... On February 10 Captain Kundu would have turned 23. According to reports he had booked a ticket to go home for his birthday and celebrate with his mother and younger sister who live in Pataudi in Haryana. On his last visit not too long ago he had been held up by villagers as a hero. Feb 05 201812:26 (IST)Union Minister Hansraj Ahir has condemned the firing across the LoC.Union Minister Hansraj Ahir has condemned the firing across the LoC. We will not forgive Pakistan s actions. It will prove to be Pakistan s foolishness and will cost them dearly Hansraj Ahir Minister of State Home Affairs said.Feb 05 201810:24 (IST)I study in the Govt. Middle School Khorinar & had come to attend classes but I am returning to home now as school has been closed after heavy shelling last night : Amreena Kausar student #JammuAndKashmirpic.twitter.com/hpdaAcQA0E- ANI (@ANI) February 5 2018Feb 05 201810:06 (IST)It s a very sad news that 4 of our brave jawans including Army Captain hv bn martyred in ceasefire violation by #Pakistan. My thoughts are with families of martyrs. #Ceasefireviolations by Pakistan continues...does NDA has any plan to deal with this..?#Rajouri#JammuAndKashmirhttps://t.co/aQ940L6qU1- Ashok Gehlot (@ashokgehlot51) February 5 2018Feb 05 201810:05 (IST)84 schools closed as a precautionary measure after Pakistan violated ceasefire in Rajouri sector yesterdayFeb 05 201809:49 (IST) This time they (Pakistan) have used https://www.studiopress.com/forums/users/payrecharge/ guided missiles and mortors. Heavy firing was done by Pakistanis. We are also retaliating and giving them a befitting reply. The fact remains that how far the Pakistanis are going to continue this firing. We must give a solid reply so that they don t repeat these kind of actions again Defence expert Sunil Deshpande was quoted by news agency ANI.Feb 05 201809:30 (IST)Captain Kapil Kundu 22 was one of the soldiers killed in the firing.Feb 05 201809:28 (IST) The soliders killed were identified as Captain Kapil Kundu 22 Rifleman Ramavatar 28 Rifleman Subham Singh 22 and Havilder Roshan Lal 42.Feb 05 201809:19 (IST) 84 schools closed as a precautionary measure after Pakistan violated ceasefire in Rajouri sector yesterday. Four Army personnel lost their lives and one was injured in the ceasefire violation; Latest visuals from Manjakote area.No more content CommentsClose X