Indian director general of military operations (DGMO) Lt General Vinod Bhatia and his Pakistani counterpart Major General Aamer Riaz also agreed to make the existing hotline between them "more effective and result-oriented" as well as inform each other if "innocent civilians inadvertently crossed the LoC" to ensure their "early return".
In a joint statement after the two-and-a-half hour long meeting, the two DGMOs stressed their "resolve and commitment to "continue efforts for ensuring ceasefire, peace and tranquillity" on the LoC. But while Pakistan may be hopeful of an early resumption of the stalled composite dialogue process, it's unlikely to happen with India headed for general elections in early-2014.
The statement said two flag meetings between brigade commanders would be held "in the near future" — probably in the Bimbergali and Kishnaghati sectors — to carry forward the positive spirit" of the DGMO-level meeting, the first such face-to-face one since the 1999 Kargil conflict.
The meeting, which took place on the Pakistani side of the Wagah border in Punjab, came in the backdrop of the big jump in ceasefire violations that saw the two militaries regularly exchanging fire this year. India recorded as many as 200 ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the LoC this year, with another 50 taking place along the international border (IB).
India, of course, was also furious with the beheading of an Indian soldier and mutilation of another's body in the Mendhar sector on January 8 as well as the brutal killing of another five soldiers in Poonch sector on August 6 by Pakistani "border action teams" in cross-border raids.
The ceasefire came into force along the 778km LoC, the 198km IB in J&K and the 110km actual ground position line (AGPL) in the Siachen-Saltoro Ridge in November 2003 as a major CBM between the two countries.
But while the ceasefire by and large held in the early years, it has come under tremendous strain in recent times. There were 44 such violations recorded along the LoC in 2010, which increased to 51 in 2011 and 93 in 2012.
The violations this year hit a new high, with one Indian soldier being killed and 15 injured, apart from the Pakistani cross-border raids. Indian Army responded with "punitive fire assaults" after defence minister AK Antony declared the government has given "freedom" to the military to act tough with Pakistan forces if the situation so demanded.
Army chief General Bikram Singh, too, directed his battalion commanders deployed along the LoC to be "aggressive and offensive" in the face of provocation by Pakistani forces.
Though the decision to hold the DGMO-level meeting was taken during the Singh-Sharif in New York in September, when the hostilities were at their peak along the LoC, India was cold to the Pakistani move to include civilian diplomats in the dialogue mechanism. India felt that such a mechanism was best left to the two militaries without turning it into a diplomatic one. With Pakistan then agreeing to the Indian condition, the two DGMOs met on Tuesday.
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