Indian Forces Resort To Unprovoked Firing In Harpal, Charwah Sectors

Rawalpindi, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st May, 2018) : Indian troops initiated unprovoked cease fire violation along Working Boundary targeting civil population with mortars and heavy weapons in Harpal and Charwah Sectors since early Monday morning.

According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Pakistan Rangers Punjab is effectively responding and targeting those Indian posts which initiated fire. However, intermittent fire continues.

Earlier, at least four people including a woman and three children were martyred on Friday from "unprovoked" Indian firing across Working Boundary in Sialkot.

The ISPR statement said that Indian forces targeted Harpal, Charwah, Bajra Garhi and Akhnor sector.

As a result of the firing, Noor Hussain's 40-year-old wife Kulsoom Bibi and her three children 18-year-old Shama Naz, 14-year-old Ali Hamza and 10-year-old Muskan was killed while 10 civilians were injured.

According to Foreign Office, the Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria was summoned by the acting foreign secretary today to condemn the unprovoked and continuing ceasefire violations along the LoC and Working Boundary.