The BSF in Jammu said in a statement that it gave a befitting response to the Pakistan Rangers for the ceasefire violation and unprovoked firing on their posts.
The Border Security Force (BSF) has lodged a protest with Pakistan Rangers over unprovoked cross-border firing at a forward post in Arnia sector along the Indo-Pak border, in which a BSF jawan and a woman were injured, officials said on Saturday.
Senior sources in the security forces said the entire issue started in the area a few days ago when a BSF soldier was fired upon by Pakistani troops while he was carrying out repairs near the border fence on the international border fence there.
"Pak Rangers resorted to Mortar shelling which was countered by BSF with appropriate response. Intermittent firing continued till 3 a.m.," said the BSF, which is mandated to guard the 3,323 km India-Pakistan border.
Border Security Force personnel said an 'explosion' on Thursday late evening, barely hours after the Pakistan Rangers resorted to unprovoked firing on the BSF troops on the International Border in the RS Pura sector.
Two Border Security Force personnel sustained bullet injuries from Pakistani rangers' unprovoked firing along the International Border Arnia Sector of Jammu, officials said.
"On October 17, forward deployed BSF troops apprehended 1 Pakistan national ahead of the border fence, while he crossed the Indian border and entered Indian territory, in the area falling near the Village Khalra in Tarn Taran district," said an official BSF release.
Families staged protest sit-ins against joint operation killings in Sindh's Nawabshah on Friday after Pakistan Rangers and police personnel indiscriminately opened fire upon innocent civilians.
World Sindhi Congress (WSC), a human rights organisation, has also called this act of law enforcers an act of “fascist and ethnic cleansing of Sindhi people.”
A grand 'India Day' celebration was held in London to celebrate India’s 77th Independence Day as well as the historic success of the Chandrayaan-3 moon mission.