Cross-border firing: India lodges protest
27 Aug 2014 5:45 AM IST
India on Tuesday lodged a protest with Pakistan over escalating border ceasefire violations in the ‘heaviest’ cross-border firing since the 1971 India-Pakistan war even as the two countries agreed to hold flag meetings to defuse the situation.
The protest was lodged during the telephonic talks between the DGMOs (director general military operations) of the two countries, Army sources said in Delhi, adding it was held around 1200 hours for about 10 minutes during which ‘all relevant issues’ were raised.
During the talks, the Indian side is understood to have raised the issue of increasing ceasefire violations and lodged a protest over the issue, the sources said. There have been 95 ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the line of control (LoC) and it has also breached the ceasefire pact 25 times on the international border(IB). ‘The two sides have agreed to hold flag meetings at field levels by both Army and BSF to defuse the situation,’ the sources said. The DGMOs — Lt Gen PR Kumar from India and Maj General Amir Riaz from Pakistan — talked on the hotline.
The protest was lodged during the telephonic talks between the DGMOs (director general military operations) of the two countries, Army sources said in Delhi, adding it was held around 1200 hours for about 10 minutes during which ‘all relevant issues’ were raised.
During the talks, the Indian side is understood to have raised the issue of increasing ceasefire violations and lodged a protest over the issue, the sources said. There have been 95 ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the line of control (LoC) and it has also breached the ceasefire pact 25 times on the international border(IB). ‘The two sides have agreed to hold flag meetings at field levels by both Army and BSF to defuse the situation,’ the sources said. The DGMOs — Lt Gen PR Kumar from India and Maj General Amir Riaz from Pakistan — talked on the hotline.
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