The Line of Control (LoC) is once again on the boil across frontier Rajouri and Poonch districts of Jammu division.
For the last couple of days, Pakistan is deliberately targeting civilian areas and targeting Indian soldiers with sniper fire.
Indian Army too remains in a State of high alert.
Late Saturday evening, in heavy exchange of fire, over one dozen villages were affected in Poonch sector.
According to ground reports, a primary school building was also affected in the shelling.
Official sources claimed, Pakistan Army was using artillery fire to target the Indian villages and forward posts of the Indian Army.
Till the time of filing the report, heavy shelling was going on in the area, official sources claimed.
According to official sources, "Pakistan initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation around 5.30 p.m by shelling several forward areas of Poonch on saturday".
Lt Col Devender Anand, Defence PRO in Jammu said,the Indian army retaliated strongly and effectively in response to the ceasefire violation by the Pakistan Army.
Reports from ground zero suggested over one dozen villages in Poonch with a sizeble population of over 10,000 were directly affected as Pakistan army was targeting civilian pockets in the area.