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Pakistan summons Indian envoy over ceasefire violations

across LoC
BY PTI | UPDATED: JUL 24, 2017, 07.03 PM IST Post a Comment

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan today summoned India's Deputy High Commissioner J P Singh

after one civilian was killed and three others injured in alleged ceasefire violations across
the Line of Control by Indian troops.

The Foreign Office claimed that Indian forces resorted to "unprovoked firing" on Leepa
Sector on July 21 which killed Umair (12) and injured three civilians in Gheekot village.

The Director General (SA & SAARC), Dr. Mohammad Faisal, summoned Singh and
"condemned the unprovoked ceasefire violations by the Indian occupation forces," it said.

"The deliberate targeting of civilians is indeed deplorable and contrary to human dignity This was the third ceasefire violation by the Indian
and international human rights and humanitarian laws," Faisal said. forces in the past four days, the Foreign Office said.

He urged the Indian side to respect the 2003 ceasefire arrangement; investigate this and Big Change:
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other incidents of ceasefire violations; instruct the Indian forces to respect the ceasefire, in
letter and spirit and maintain peace on the LoC.

This was the third ceasefire violation by the Indian forces in the past four days, the Foreign Office said.
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It alleged that despite calls for restraint, India continues to indulge in ceasefire violations.

In 2017 to date, Indian forces have carried out 618 ceasefire violations along the Line of Control and the Working Boundary, it claimed.

Faisal also urged India to permit United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) to play its mandated role as
per the UN Security Council resolutions.

According to the UN Security Council mandate of 1971, UNMOGIP observes and reports on ceasefire violations along and across the
LoC and the Working Boundary between India and Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir, as well as reports developments that could lead to
ceasefire violations.

India maintains that UNMOGIP has outlived its utility and is irrelevant after the Simla Agreement and the consequent establishment of
the Line of Control.

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