Two Pakistani soldiers were injured or possibly killed in an exchange of machinegun fire along the Line of Control in Kashmir’s Uri sector Tuesday afternoon, hours after five Indian jawans were killed

India on Saturday accused Pakistani troops of violating the November 2003 ceasefire by firing rocket projectile grenades (RPGs), heavy machine guns and small arms towards its forward posts along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch area.

A defence spokesperson in Jammu said that the Pakistani troops violated ceasefire by firing towards the Indian Army posts in Doda Battalion forward area in Poonch district beginning at 7.30 am on Saturday. “Our jawans retaliated effectively,” the spokesperson said. He said this was the fifth violation of ceasefire by Pakistani troops so far in the area in July this year.

In what is being termed as a major breakthrough against Islamist militants, the Army and Jammu and Kashmir police’s counterinsurgency Special Operations Group (SOG) on Tuesday killed the “operation chief” of Jaish-e-Muhammad group in a joint operation carried out in a remote village of the state’s Lolab valley close to the Line of Control (LoC).

A mob on Saturday fought pitched battles with the CRPF at Khudwani, in southern Kulgam district, and neighbouring Qazigund, the gateway to the Kashmir Valley from the south.

Srinagar and other major towns of the Kashmir Valley, placed under indefinite curfew early Friday, witnessed widespread protests over the killing of four residents in Thursday’s firing incidents in a

The police has registered three FIRs against BSF officers and jawans in connection with the firing incidents of Thursday.

At least five persons were killed and several others injured when BSF and local police personnel opened fire on irate residents protesting against the alleged desecration of Islam’s holy scriptures by members of a paramilitary force in a remote village of Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district early on Thursday. Unofficial reports put the death toll at eight.

Police and CRPF personnel in large numbers were fanned out in Srinagar overnight to enforce a security clampdown, a somewhat time-tested manoeuvre by the local authorities aimed at steering clear of a face-off in open with the separatist leadership and its supporters.

A suspected Pakistani intruder was shot dead by Indian troops along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Tuesday.