THE Pakistan Army continued shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in four sectors of Jammu and Kashmir, prompting a befitting response by the Indian Army, officials said on Thursday. Compared to Wednesday, when the Pakistan Army carried out one of the most intense artillery and mortar shelling in years targeting the forward villages in J&K following missile strikes by India as part of ‘Operation Sindoor’, the intensity of cross-border firing was less and restricted to four sectors on Thursday, the officials said.

 

“On the intervening night of May 7 and 8, Pakistan Army resorted to unprovoked firing using small arms and artillery guns across the LoC in areas opposite Kupwara, Baramulla, Uri and Akhnoor sectors in J&K. The Indian Army responded proportionately,” a defence spokesman said in Jammu. The officials said there was no report of any casualties in the skirmishes. The worst-hit Poonch sector in Jammu, which recorded 13 deaths in Wednesday’s intense shelling, remained by and large peaceful at night, they said. Hundreds of border residents have already moved to safer areas in view of the flare up. Among the 13 persons killed in the Pakistani shelling was Lance Naik Dinesh Kumar of the 5-Field Regiment.