{"id":51247,"date":"2019-11-19T15:18:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T07:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51247"},"modified":"2019-11-19T16:23:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T08:23:30","slug":"indian-pakistani-troops-exchange-fire-on-kashmir-loc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51247","title":{"rendered":"Indian, Pakistani Troops Exchange Fire On Kashmir LoC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Nov 19 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; Troops of India and Pakistan, exchanged heavy fire and mortar shelling, along the Line of Control (LoC), dividing Kashmir, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two sides targeted each other&#8217;s positions and civilian areas, in frontier Rajouri district, about 222 km southwest of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This evening (yesterday), Pakistani troops violated cease-fire and resorted to unprovoked firing, targeting forward posts and civilian areas in Sunderbani, Rajouri,&#8221; an Indian army official said. &#8220;The exchange started at 4:15 p.m. (local time).&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the official, the Indian army, posted in the area, was also retaliating to the firing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, there were no reports of any damage or loss of life caused to the Indian side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week five civilians were wounded and several houses damaged, in a similar exchange of fire between the two sides, on the LoC in Tanghdar sector of frontier Kupwara district, about 153 km northwest of Srinagar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Delhi and Islamabad accuse each other of resorting to unprovoked firings and violating cease-fire agreements. Both sides maintain their troops gave befitting reply to the other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The LoC is a de facto border that divides Kashmir into India and Pakistan controlled parts.&#8211; NNN-PTI  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Nov 19 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; Troops of India and Pakistan, exchanged heavy fire and mortar shelling, along the Line of Control (LoC), dividing Kashmir, officials said. The two sides targeted each other&#8217;s positions and civilian areas, in frontier Rajouri district, about 222 km southwest of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,194,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51247"}],"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=51247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}