{"id":5295,"date":"2016-10-01T13:08:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T07:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=5295"},"modified":"2016-10-01T13:08:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T07:38:18","slug":"guns-continue-roar-along-ib-jammu-army-chief-lands-winter-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=5295","title":{"rendered":"Guns Continue To Roar Along IB In Jammu; Army Chief Lands in Winter Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong>India and Pakistan on Saturday exchanged gunfire in the Akhnoor sector of the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPakistan Rangers targeted Border Security Force BSF positions on the International Border in Akhnoor sector of Jammu district today (Saturday) morning. Rangers used small arms and automatics,\u201d reports said.<\/p>\n<p>However, Pakistani media quoting its army said, \u201cIndian army troops stationed along Line of Control and IB violated the ceasefire which was duly retaliated by our men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBSF has retaliated Pakistan firing using same calibre weapons. Intermittent firing exchanges are still going on in the area,\u201d reports added.<\/p>\n<p>The firing, which started at 4 am, is still underway. \u201cThis is the third ceasefire violation in Akhnoor sector in last 36 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Indian army chief General Dalbir Singh arrived in winter capital this morning to review border security situation in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will take stock of the prevailing situation on the borders in the state,\u201d reports said.\u00a0 \u201cHe will receive a briefing at the Udhampur headquarters of the Northern Command.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGOC-in-C of Northern Command and the three corps commanders of 14, 15 and 16 will be present during the briefing session,\u201d the reported added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is likely the Army Chief might visit some forward positions on the Line of Control (LoC),\u201d they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:\u00a0India and Pakistan on Saturday exchanged gunfire in the Akhnoor sector of the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir. \u201cPakistan Rangers targeted Border Security Force BSF positions on the International Border in Akhnoor sector of Jammu district today (Saturday) morning. Rangers used small arms and automatics,\u201d reports said. However, Pakistani media quoting its army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295","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=5295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}