After a brief lull in firing along the Line of Control in Nowshera sector, the border area in adjoining Rajouri sector came alive as Pakistani troops resorted to mortar shelling at various places on Sunday morning.
"The district administration, in coordination with other departments, is providing proper accommodation, food, cooking facility, drinking water, sanitation, first aid and other basic amenities in the relief camps", senior government official Shahid Iqbal Choudhary told a local daily.
According to reports, the Indian posts are being targetted by the neighbouring country with automatic weapons and long range mortars.
Asserting that Pakistan is violating the ceasefire in sheer "desperation", the Deputy CM said a befitting response is being given and the Indian Army will continue to do so.
More than 2,694 families, comprising 10,042 people, have been affected in shelling which led to two dead, six injured, 65 livestock dead and damage to standing crops apart from almost 45 partially and severely damaged houses, Deputy Commissioner Rajouri Shahid Iqbal Choudhary said.
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At least 51 schools in Nowshera sector have been closed for an indefinite period while 36 in Manjakote and Doongi zones have been closed for three days.
As the Pakistan Army continued its unprovoked ceasefire violation in Nowshera sector of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, as many as eight villages were seriously affected in the aftermath.
The civilians, a girl and her father, were killed by "indiscriminate" mortar fire on the Rajouri district on the Indian side of the de facto border known as the Line of Control, said Indian defense spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Manish Mehta. He said the Indian Army "retaliated strongly and effectively". "42 hamlets along LoC have been affected in the shelling tonight", said the DC who is camping in Nowshera.
Pakistani troops responded in a brilliant manner and injured several soldiers of the India Army.
Union minister Prakash Javadekar today said incidents like the attack on an Army patrol in Kashmir by terrorists were part of tactics by Pakistan, which knew it could not fight and win a conventional war with India.
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