New Delhi: Pakistani forces were forced to "plead for ceasefire" after Indian troops retaliated forcefully to heavy shelling and firing from across the border, the Border Security Force (BSF) said today."The befitting reply by BSF units to the unprovoked shelling and firing across the IB (international border) by Pakistani forces has forced them to plead for ceasefire," a senior BSF officer said."For the last three days, the precision fire of BSF troopers on Pakistani firing locations inflicted heavy losses and yesterday this firing found their mark with one of the rangers in chicken neck area," the officer said.The paramilitary Pakistan Rangers that guards the border with India called up the BSF unit in Jammu today and beseeched to stop firing, the officer added.In a video released by the BSF, a rocket is seen flying towards its target -- a Pakistani bunker.
The fast-moving projectile then hits the structure, resulting in a massive explosion, as seen in the black and white footage of what appears to be an infrared camera."If they are targeting us, they are getting an appropriate reply.
We were expecting such an incident because the harvesting season is over and once harvesting season gets over, they always do such mischief," BSF Inspector General Ram Awtar had said on Friday.The BSF fired the rocket at the target in the highly strategic "Chicken's Neck" area -- surrounded on three sides by Pakistani forces -- in Akhnoor, some 30 kilometres from Jammu.Pakistani forces had been shelling Indian positions with heavy mortars before India responded to the threat.
On Friday, a BSF jawan was killed and another was injured in Pakistani firing in Jammu's Arnia sector.
Sitaram Upadhyay, 28, who joined the Border Security Force in 2011, was killed in the firing.Another BSF jawan, Devender Singh, was killed in Pakistani firing on May 15.
His death took the number of people killed in over 700 incidents of Pakistani shelling along the International Border and the Line of Control (LoC) to 34, including 18 security personnel.With inputs from agencies