NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday said Pakistan has been taught a “befitting lesson” with the Army “shutting their mouth” after guns fell silent along the International border and Line of Control in Kashmir after nine days of heavy exchange of mortar shelling and gunfire.
“There was no cross-border firing during the intervening night of October 9 and 10 along the International Border in Jammu and Samba districts”, a BSF spokesman told PTI. The firing paused after a strong retaliatory response by India. The last instance of firing by Pakistan along IB was when its Rangers targeted four BSF Border Out Posts(BoP) in Hiranagar sector of Kathua district for 20 minutes from 8 PM last night, the spokesman said, adding that earlier around 60 BoPs used to be targeted.
There has been a lull in firing from across the border at the Line of Control (LoC) for the last couple of days. “Pakistan has got a befitting lesson. They will not dare to repeat it again. Our jawans have shut their mouth,” Modi said addressing an election rally in Dhamangaon in Maharashtra.
The Indo-Pak border conflict escalation marked by over three dozen ceasefire violationsalong the 192-km long IB in Jammu frontier since October one had been the worst since a 2003 ceasefire accord between India and Pakistan. The firing incidents left eight persons dead and nearly 90 people, including 13 securitymen injured. Also, around 32,000 people have fled from their border homes leaving 113 hamlets deserted along the IB.
India yesterday sent out a strong warning to Pakistan, saying it will have to bear an “unaffordable” cost if it persists with its “adventurism” even as Prime Minister Modi asserted that aggression from across the border is being responded to with courage.
Nine civilians on Pakistani side of Kashmir and eight on Indian side have been killed since heavy shelling by both sides’ security forces started more than a week ago along a 200-km stretch of border in Jammu and Kashmir.
Both countries have accused the other of igniting the latest hostilities that have hit heavily populated civilian areas. India says it will not talk to Pakistan or stop firing until its neighbor backs down first.
New Delhi maintains that Pakistan Rangers shelled almost the entire IB by targeting 60 BoPs and over 130 border hamlets in Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts of Jammu and Kashmir.
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