Pakistan on Monday said that India violated the Line of Control (LoC) cease-fire agreement 90 times during 2016 and called for an end to the repeated violations. Reacting to the repeated cease-fire violation at the LoC especially after the September 18 Uri attack that resulted in killing of 19 Indian soldiers, Foreign Office spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said that India was resorting to unprovoked firing at LoC.
"India again resorts to unprovoked firing at LoC. During 2016, India violated cease-fire more than 90 times," the spokesperson tweeted but did not give further details of any casualties due to the latest firing on the border. Earlier on Sunday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that Indian troops resorted to unprovoked firing in the Khoiratta (Bhimber) sector along the LoC in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Nafees Zakaria, only in 2014, India had violated the cease-fire agreement for more than 200 times. He maintained that Pakistan on the other hand has never violated the cease-fire agreement and that cease-fire violations have always been misreported by Indian media.
He said that Pakistan believes in a peaceful neighbourhood and had always retaliated to firings initiated by the Indian troops at the LoC. "Much has been said about India's claim of conducting surgical strikes, which now stand exposed as blatant lies from both from within India and from abroad. Pakistan has already rejected the baseless claims of surgical strikes. As we emphasized earlier, India is desperate to divert attention of the International Community from grave human rights violations in Indian occupied Kashmir," said the Foreign Office spokesperson in his last week regular media briefing.