"There was shelling of mortar bombs, rockets and firing by automatic weapons on border outposts (BoPs) in Nikki Tawi areas of Jammu district and Ramgarh belts of Samba district since last night," BSF officials said on Thursday.
In the biggest-ever provocation close on heels of visit of Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde to India-Pakistan border, Pakistani troops on Tuesday resorted to night-long heavy shelling and firing at over 50 border outposts along IB in which one BSF head constable was killed and seven other security personnel injured.
In the latest round, they fired 82mm mortar shells and also rockets, aparts from light machine guns (LGMs) in civilian areas as well.
BSF troops guarding the borderline retaliated, resulting in heavy exchanges, which continued 0230 hours on Thursday, officials said.
There was no loss of life or injury to anyone in the shelling and firing, they said.
Due to shelling, panic-stricken villagers have fled their homes to safety.
PM disappointed with Sharif
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said he was disappointed with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif and asked him "even at this late hour" to recognize that what was happening on the LoC and international border is not good for the two nations.
"Let me say I am disappointed because in the New York meeting (between them last month) there was a general agreement on both the sides that peace and tranquillity should be maintained on the border, LoC as well as IB and it has not happened. It has come to me as a big disappointment," Singh told reporters accompanying him way back from his two-nation tour to Russia and China.
"We had agreed at that time that if the ceasefire of 2003 has held ground for 10 years, then it could be made to hold later on also. That it has not happened is something which is really a disappointment," he said when asked whether he was disappointed with Sharif.
He said even at this late hour he sincerely hoped that Sharif would recognise that this development "is not good for either of the two countries".
The Prime Minister's concerns comes against the backdrop of heavy firing by Pakistani troops not only along the LoC but also along the IB and the loss of lives of two BSF personnel in the last one week and continuing ceasefire violations in the past three weeks even after the New York meeting.
Over the New York meeting on the margins of the UN general assembly, Singh had come under attack from BJP for engaging in "futile talks" with Pakistan.
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