A BSF jawan in Jammu's Pargwal area near the International Border
Amid border hostilities, India and Pakistan today held a flag meeting at Pargwal area in Jammu near the International Border.
The 35-minute-long meeting between the Border Security Force (BSF) and Pakistan Rangers was the first since multiple ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops in the last couple of weeks. Both sides reportedly registered their protest over the recent incidents of firing at the border.
Today's meeting comes just a day after senior military commanders from both sides met to discuss steps to restore calm.
India claims that in the last two weeks, Pakistan has violated the ceasefire along the Line of Control or de-facto border more than 20 times. In fact, the continuous firing from Pakistan over the last fortnight is "the heaviest cross-border firing I've seen since the 1971 war," said DK Pathak, the chief of the Border Security Force to NDTV on Tuesday.
(Read)Tension between Pakistan and India has rocketed over the last few weeks; New Delhi has called off talks in Islamabad after Pakistan decided to consult Kashmiri separatists before the Foreign Secretaries of the two countries were to hold a summit.
Last month, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi visited Kashmir and accused Pakistan of using militants to conduct "a proxy war" against India. Pakistan denounced the charges as "baseless" and said India should steer clear of "a blame game."