Rawalpindi, Nov. 18 (TNS):\u00a0The Indian army was told that targeting of civilians was \u201chighly unprofessional and unethical\u201d, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The warning was conveyed by Director General Military Operations (DGMO) Major General Sahir Shamshad Mirza to his Indian counterpart Lieutenant General AK Bhatt during an \u201cunscheduled hot-line\u201d.<\/p>\n
Amid unabated ceasefire violations by Indian troops, Pakistan Army warned Indian military that continued provocations along the Line of Control (LoC) and Working Boundary could \u201cinvoke an unbearable response\u201d.<\/p>\n
Pakistan Army has recorded 1,300 ceasefire violations by Indian troops along the LoC and Working Boundary already this year. According to the Foreign Office figures, 52 civilians have been killed and over 170 others injured in shelling and firing by Indian troops.<\/p>\n
The \u201cunscheduled hot-line\u201d contact came a day after army chief General Qamar Bajwa said Pakistan Army was always ready to respond to any threats across the country\u2019s eastern border with India.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere cannot be any let up for our preparedness for response against perpetual threat on our eastern border including LoC and Line of Actual Contact (LAC),\u201d he was quoted as saying during his visit to the Corps Headquarters Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n
The army chief\u2019s visit coincided with unprovoked firing by Indian forces in Chirikot and Nezapir sectors, in which two civilians were martyred and five others, including two women, injured.<\/p>\n
Subsequently, the Indian deputy high commissioner, JP Singh, was summoned to the Foreign Office by Director General South Asia & SAARC Dr Mohammad Faisal to lodge a diplomatic protest.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe deliberate targeting of civilians is indeed deplorable and contrary to human dignity and international human rights and humanitarian laws,\u201d Dr Faisal was quoted by the Foreign Office as telling the Indian envoy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ceasefire violations by India are a threat to regional peace and security and may lead to a strategic miscalculation.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Rawalpindi, Nov. 18 (TNS):\u00a0The Indian army was told that targeting of civilians was \u201chighly unprofessional and unethical\u201d, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Saturday. The warning was conveyed by Director General Military Operations (DGMO) Major General Sahir Shamshad Mirza to his Indian counterpart Lieutenant General AK Bhatt during an \u201cunscheduled hot-line\u201d. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-rawalpindi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31782,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31780\/revisions\/31782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}