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By APD writer Muhammad Sohail
**ISLAMABAD, Jan. 18 (APD) ** – Pakistani army claimed that at least two women were killed and five others injured in cross-border firing by the Indian forces along the Working Boundary in the country’s eastern Chaprar sector on Thursday.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a mouthpiece of the Pakistani army, said that the unprovoked firing took place between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier patrols near the fenced border with Pakistan
Indian forces continued their unprovoked ceasefire violations and targeted the civilian population along the Working Boundary in the village of Kundan Pur, Chaprar sector in eastern Sialkot district, said a statement from the ISPR.
As a result of the firing, two women were killed and five civilians, including three women, were injured.
"The Pakistan Rangers Punjab effectively responded to neutralize Indian Border Security Forces posts," the statement said.
According to the Foreign Office, Indian forces have committed more than 70 ceasefire violations along the Line of Control (LoC) and Working Boundary in 2018, in which at least five civilians and four soldiers have lost their lives, and 15 people have been injured.
Ceasefire violations are a frequent feature along the LoC and Working Boundary from the two sides despite the leadership of Pakistan Rangers and India's Border Security Forces agreed in November 2017 that the spirit of the 2003 Ceasefire Agreement must be revived to protect innocent lives.
Unprovoked firing by Indian forces across the LoC had taken 832 lives, left 3,000 injured and had damaged 3,300 houses in the first half of 2017, according to the director general of the Disaster Management Authority, Zaheeruddin Qureshi.
“This unprecedented escalation in ceasefire violations by India is continuing from the year 2017 when the Indian forces committed more than 1,900 ceasefire violations,” Pakistan’s foreign office said earlier this week.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
