Pakistan violated the ceasefire 3186 times in 8 months, the highest in 17 years

Srinagar, Saturday 19 September 2020

Amid tensions on the Indo-China border, Pakistan has fired 3,186 sieges in Jammu and Kashmir near the Line of Control in the last eight months, the highest in 17 years.

However, the Union Minister told Parliament that whenever such incidents took place, the Army had given a scathing response and also raised the issue with the Pakistani authorities using available media and channels to protest, killing 8 Army personnel in ceasefire violations this year. In addition, two have been injured.

In 2003, the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee violated the ceasefire agreement. In addition to ceasefire violations, there have been 242 incidents of cross-border firing near the international border in the Jammu region from January 1 to August 31. This information has been given by the Minister of State for Defense Shripad Nike in the Rajya Sabha.

Also on Friday (September 18) evening, a woman was shot and wounded in a ceasefire violation by Pakistan in a village near the Line of Control (LoC), followed by heavy firing in the Gurez sector of north Kashmir and cross-border mortar shelling.

A total of 2,432 ceasefires have been violated in the six months to June this year, with a modest decline in the number of ceasefire violations in subsequent months, due to the global Kovid epidemic, which has infected three million people in Pakistan and more than 5.3 million in India. In the year 2019, there were about 2000 incidents of ceasefire violations.