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Guns fall silent on the border
Booming of guns and staccato sound of small and medium arms fire exchange between Indian and Pakistani troops along the border in Jammu and Kashmir have virtually ceased with exchange of hardly a few rounds of small arms fire after `maximum restraint` announcement by Islamabad on December three.
Booming of guns and staccato sound of small and medium arms fire exchange between Indian and Pakistani troops along the border in Jammu and Kashmir have virtually ceased with exchange of hardly a few rounds of small arms fire after 'maximum restraint' announcement by Islamabad on December three.
The daily firing pattern resorted to by Pakistani troops prior to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's unilateral Ramzan ceasefire was 20,000 to 22,000 rounds of small arms and 300 to 400 mortar shells along 520 km-long International Border (IB) and Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu division, according to defence sources in Jammu.
When the Ramzan ceasefire came into force from midnight of November 28, Pakistani troops changed their unprovoked firing pattern by reducing the level to 10,000 to 12,000 rounds in case of small arms and around 200 rounds of mortar shells, the sources said. But, there was a sudden reduction in the intensity of firing from across the border after the Chief Executive of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, directed his troops to observe 'maximum restraint' along the border with India on December three. Consequently, the heavy arms fire by mortar ceased and that by small arms came down to about 1200 rounds daily.
Bureau Report
When the Ramzan ceasefire came into force from midnight of November 28, Pakistani troops changed their unprovoked firing pattern by reducing the level to 10,000 to 12,000 rounds in case of small arms and around 200 rounds of mortar shells, the sources said. But, there was a sudden reduction in the intensity of firing from across the border after the Chief Executive of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, directed his troops to observe 'maximum restraint' along the border with India on December three. Consequently, the heavy arms fire by mortar ceased and that by small arms came down to about 1200 rounds daily.
Bureau Report