AZAD KASHMIR: Pakistan Punjab Rangers responded befittingly to unprovoked Indian shelling across the working boundary on Sunday night, according to the Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR).

ISPR stated that Indian border security forces resorted to unprovoked shelling across the working boundary on Sunday night. Pakistan Punjab Rangers responded in kind to the Indian aggression and retaliated with fire.  Indian forces targeted Chuprar and Harpal sectors, according to statements from the ISPR.

According to the ISPR, one civilian was injured due to the Indian shelling whereas no loss of life had been reported.

Pakistan and India have traded fire on numerous occasions recently, ever since relations between the two nuclear-armed nations tensed after the Uri attack, in which 19 Indian soldiers were killed. India and blamed Pakistan for the attack, which the latter had vehemently denied.

India had claimed surgical strikes against alleged militants in Pakistan a couple of days after the Uri attack. This was a claim which was not substantiated on any video or photographic evidence hence major powers such as the USA, China and UK refused to confirm the authenticity of the ‘surgical strike’.

Pakistan had also claimed that no surgical strike had taken place on Pakistani soil.