{"id":47180,"date":"2019-10-21T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=47180"},"modified":"2019-10-21T11:59:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T03:59:35","slug":"soldiers-civilians-killed-as-pakistan-india-engage-in-cross-border-firing-along-loc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=47180","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers, Civilians Killed As Pakistan, India Engage In Cross-Border Firing Along LoC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ISLAMABAD\/SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Oct 21 (NNN-APP) &#8211; A Pakistani soldier and three civilians were killed, as Pakistani and Indian armies exchanged fire, along the Line of Control (LoC), in the disputed Kashmir region, director general of Pakistani military&#8217;s media wing said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two Pakistani soldiers and five civilians were also injured in the clash, Asif Ghafoor, director general of Pakistani army&#8217;s Inter-Services Public Relations, said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least two Indian army troopers and a civilian were also killed, while three civilians wounded during the skirmishes, Indian officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There has been a sharp increase in cease-fire violations along the LoC and International Border dividing Kashmir, during the past two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The troops on both sides targeted each other&#8217;s posts and frontier localities. Recent skirmishes claimed lives of civilians and troopers on both sides<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LoC is a de facto border that divides Kashmir into India- and Pakistan-controlled parts.&#8211; NNN-APP  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD\/SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Oct 21 (NNN-APP) &#8211; A Pakistani soldier and three civilians were killed, as Pakistani and Indian armies exchanged fire, along the Line of Control (LoC), in the disputed Kashmir region, director general of Pakistani military&#8217;s media wing said. Two Pakistani soldiers and five civilians were also injured in the clash, Asif Ghafoor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47180"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}