All Not Quiet on Western Front: Four Latest Updates
Oct 01, 2016, 12:35 IST
- Intransigent Pak Violates Ceasefire again: Pakistan Rangers on Saturday restored to indiscriminate firing at Indian positions in Jammu and Kashmir's Akhnoor sector of the International Border. BSF has retaliated Pakistan firing using same calibre weapons. Intermittent firing exchanges are still going on in the area. The firing, which started at 4 a.m. is still underway. This is Pakistan's third ceasefire violation in Akhnoor sector in last 36 hours.
- Army chief to visit Jammu and Kashmir: Indian Army Chief General Dalbir Singh is arriving here on Saturday to review border security situation in Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of continued ceasefire violations by Pakistan. This will be General Dalbir Singh's first visit to Jammu and Kashmir after India carried out surgical strikes against terrorist launching pads across the LoC on Wednesday night.
- Uri brigade commander side-stepped: The Brigade Commander of the Uri-based army brigade has been "side stepped" by the army for fair, comprehensive and objective inquiry. Action against the army officer comes in the wake of the terror attack on the army camp in the Uri city of Jammu and Kashmir on Septmber 18, in which 17 soldiers were martyred.
- Another Uri martyr cremated: Raj Kishore Singh, one of the soldiers injured in the September 18 Uri terror attack, was cremated on Saturday with full state honours in Bihar's Bhojpur district, a police official said. Relatives and hundreds of people gathered in Raj Kishore's native village of Piprapati to witness the last rites. Raj Kishore, 35, left behind his wife Kanchan Devi and two children, 12-year-old daughter, Sushani Kumari and 10-year-old son, Hemant Singh.
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