After suffering heavy losses and damages in punitive strikes by the Indian Army along the line of Control in Poonch sector on Saturday, the Pakistan Army on late Sunday evening once again targeted forward Indian posts and several civilian areas to inflict injuries on the Indian side in Poonch sector.
According to ground reports intense shelling by the Pakistan Army started around 6.40 pm and was going on till the time of filing the report in which several residential houses and Government
middle school building bore maximum brunt of the mortar shelling. Trade centre in Chakan-da-bagh also came on the radar of the Pakistan army as large number of mortar shells landed close to the trade route.
Four minor girls were orphaned by the Pakistan Army after an Indian Army jawan and his wife were both killed in intense mortar shelling in Khari Karmara area along the line of control in Poonch on saturday.
Defence sources in Poonch claimed Pakistani troopers were mostly firing 82 mm and 120 mm mortar shells on the Indian Army posts and civilian areas.
Defence spokesman lt Col Manish Mehta said that Pakistan Army initiated unprovoked and indiscriminate firing of small arms, automatics and mortars from 18:40 hours in Poonch sector, and the Indian Army is retaliating strongly and effectively.