Pak Rangers Resort to Unprovoked Firing along International Border

Rangers on Pakistani side of the international border with India on Sunday night resorted to unprovoked firing in the Bamial sector, provoking the BSF to retaliate, said media reports.

Nobody is reported to have died in the exchange of fire.

According to BSF officials at Gurdaspur, the unprovoked firing from Pakistani side began nearly at 11 pm last night at Simbal post in Bamial sector, causing the BSF personnel to fire in retaliation, said reports.

They said that the exchange of fire took place for nearly 30 minutes, reports said.

Reports said that the BSF officials would raise the issue of unprovoked firing with Pakistani Rangers today.

Officials said that an alert was sounded along the whole border stretch in Punjab and Rajasthan after the incident, said reports.

There have been incidents of unprovoked firing from Pakistan side in Poonch and Amritsar sectors in the recent past and BSF authorities had lodged protests with Pakistani authorities.

(Based on the internet reports)