Naik Jayasewar, an Indian jawan of the Gorkha Rifles was killed in cross border firing in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, on May 19. The LoC between India and Pakistan has been a witness to various such cases time and again.
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less than a week. On May 13, Pakistani troops had fired on Indian positions from across the LoC in the Tangdhar sector of the Kashmir Valley. That was the first time in four and a half years that the Indian Army charged the Pakistani Army of violating the ceasefire. On May 8, a group of militants had infiltrated into the Samba sector. Two days later, two of them killed six people including two soldiers, before getting killed in a day-long gun battle.

AP SRINAGAR, India: The Indian army said Monday it lost one soldier in a shooting from the Pakistani side of Kashmir along the heavily guarded frontier.

JAMMU: Violating ceasefire along the Line of Control - in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistani troops today opened unprovoked heavy fire on a forward Indian post killing an army jawan.
"Pakistani troops resorted to heavy and unprovoked firing on our forward posts in Mendhar in Poonch sector around 0800 hours today", a senior army officer said.
ng protest with their Pakistan counterparts.

In disturbing news there have been reports of yet another ceasefire violation by Pakistani military, this time on the Line of Control that separates Jammu & Kashmir from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK). The firing is believed to have killed one Army jawan.
Army officials said they were investigating the report that Pakistani soldiers had opened unprovoked fire today on the Line of Control in Salotari in Mendhar, Poonch. This is said to have occured in the morning (May 19) around 7 am. The firing allegedly came from the 'Ghoda' Pakistani post and one Army jawan of the Gurkha Rifles who was deployed on the Indian side, died in the firing.

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New Delhi: The security and political situation in Jammu and Kashmir came up for discussion as State Congress chief and Union Minister Saifuddin Soz met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Thursday.
The recent spurt in infiltration bids, firing on border and terror incidents in the state are understood to have figured in the discussions, sources said.
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Indian officials accuse Pakistan of violence in the disputed Himalayan border region. The allegation coincided with bombings in Jaipur.
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ight people were shot dead when the Indian Army attacked militants they claim were trying to sneak into Kashmir.

SRINAGAR, India (AFP) - Indian military commanders lodged a new protest on Wednesday with their Pakistani counterparts after soldiers came under fire from across the border for the second time in a week, the army said.
"There was an unprovoked firing from across the Line of Control (LoC) on Tuesday evening," army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Anil Kumar Mathur told AFP.
ming from near one of the Pakistani posts," he said.

Less than a week after cross border firing in Samba sector of Jammu region, the Pakistan army, violating the ceasefire, reportedly fired from across the LoC on Tuesday evening in Tangdhar sector of Kupwara district in north Kashmir.
The incident took place at around 6 pm when the Pakistan Army opened unprovoked fire towards Papa bunker in Tangdhar area last evening, said defence PRO Lt-Col A. K. Mathur.
the matter. The matter is being taken up as the Indian Army has lodged a strong protest in view of the incident, first of its kind since ceasefire came into force four and a half years back.

NEW DELHI: In the first "clear-cut major violation" of the almost five-year-old ceasefire along the contentious LoC, Pakistani troops opened heavy machine gunfire and mortar shelling at an Indian bunker in the Tangdhar sector of north Kashmir on Tuesday evening.
The "seriousness" of the violation can be gauged from the fact that PM Manmohan Singh dubbed it "worrisome" and the director-general of military operations Lt General A S Sekhon lodged a "strong" protest for the "totally unprovoked firing" with his Pakistani counterpart over the hotline on Wednesday.
ere relatively minor or ambiguous in the sense that they could also be blamed on infiltrating militants. Pakistani authorities, of course, denied any complicity of its regular troops in these incidents," said a source.

India's army has accused Pakistani troops of firing across the Line of Control that divides the disputed region of Kashmir.
It is thought to be the first such allegation by India since the two countries struck a ceasefire in 2003.
the time they said."