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New Delhi : A Director General Military Operations (DGMO) level talks was held on July 17, 2017, between India and Pakistan on the request of Pakistan’s DGMO. During the talks, the Pak DGMO raised the issues of targeting of Pak Army troops which resulted in the death of four Pakistani soldiers and one civilian in Athmuqam Sector of Pakistan occupied Kashmir opposite Indian Keren Sector, Kupwara District, J&K.
Indian DGMO in response highlighted that all Cease Fire Violations were initiated by Pakistan Army and the Indian Army only responded appropriately to them. Apart from these, firing by Indian troops was initiated against armed intruders when they were attempting to infiltrate from close proximity of Pak posts along the Line of Control (LC).
The DGMO India also put across emphatically that the trend of infiltration along the LC continued with active support of Pak forward posts impacting peace and tranquillity along the LC and also the internal security situation. This was evident from continued attempts of sniping and targeting of Indian troops undertaken through cross border actions duly supported by Pakistani Army troops. He made it implicit that Indian Army reserved the right to retaliate appropriately to any incident of violation of ceasefire but is sincere in its effort of maintaining peace and tranquillity along the LC provided there was reciprocity, according to Col Aman Kumar, PRO (Army).