{"id":31055,"date":"2020-08-09T21:37:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T16:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=31055"},"modified":"2020-08-09T21:37:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T16:07:36","slug":"pak-shells-forward-areas-along-loc-in-poonch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=31055","title":{"rendered":"Pak shells forward areas along LoC in Poonch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ptinews.com\/news\/11712070_Pak-shells-forward-areas-along-LoC-in-J-K-s-Poonch.html\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jammu<\/strong>: Pakistani troops shelled forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Poonch district on Sunday, prompting a befitting response from the Indian Army, a defence spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There have been no reports of any casualties so far, the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Around 6:45 AM, the Pakistan army initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing with small arms and shelling mortars along the LoC in Mankote sector. Indian Army retaliated befittingly,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later around 5:50 PM, Pakistan initiated small arms firing and mortar shelling in Shahpur, Kirni and Krishna Ghati sectors, the spokesperson said, adding that the Indian Army again gave a befitting reply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Intense cross-border shelling was still going on when reports last came in, a police official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People in the shelling-hit areas have been directed to stay inside underground bunkers or at other safe places to avoid any loss of life, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI Jammu: Pakistani troops shelled forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Poonch district on Sunday, prompting a befitting response from the Indian Army, a defence spokesperson said. There have been no reports of any casualties so far, the official said. &#8220;Around 6:45 AM, the Pakistan army initiated unprovoked ceasefire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}