Indian and Pakistan Armies traded heavy fire on Sunday on the line of Control (loC) in Poonch district after Pakistan indulged in unprovoked shelling and firing at Indian positions.
Defence Ministry spokesman lt-Col Manish Mehta said, “Pakistan Army initiated unprovoked and indiscriminate firing from 6.40 pm onwards in Poonch sector.
Indian Army is retaliating strongly and effectively.”
Two people — an Army soldier on leave and his wife -- were killed and two children of the couple injured in the Pakistani shelling in the same sector on Saturday.
After two days of restrictions and strike, life in Kashmir returned to normal today and the authorities restored all internet services which had been suspended in view of the first death anniversary of Hizbul Mujahideen “commander” Burhan Wani.
As Kashmir remained by and large peaceful on the anniversary yesterday, there were no restrictions on the movement or assembly of people
anywhere in the Valley today, officials said. This morning, life returned to normal as shops and other business establishments opened across the Valley, while public transport also
plied smoothly.Authorities had imposed curfew in three towns - Shopian and Tral in south Kashmir and Trehgam in north - while strict restrictions were enforced elsewhere in the Valley yesterday.
The Amarnath yatra was resumed from Jammu on Sunday after a day-long suspension due to apprehensions of a law-and-order situation in the Kashmir Valley.
Over 1.34 lakh pilgrims have so far paid their obeisance to the ice-lingam of lord Shiva at the cave shrine at an altitude of 3,888 metres in the south Kashmir Himalayas.