The United States has appreciated the joint decision of Pakistan and India to fully implement the ceasefire understanding of 2003 in letter and spirit, and to ensure that the agreement would not be violated by both sides from.
According to a spokesperson for the US Department of State, improvement in Indo-Pak relations was beneficial to all stakeholders involved.
On Tuesday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) had said in a statement that a special hotline contact was established between the director-generals of Military Operations (DGMO) of Pakistan and India.
Both DGMOs reviewed the ongoing situation at the Line of Control (LoC) and the Working Boundary, and agreed to undertake sincere measures to improve the current state of affairs to ensure peace and avoid hardships to the civilians along the borders, the statement had added.
It was also agreed upon that in the case of an issue, restraint will be exercised and the matter would be resolved through the utilisation of existing mechanisms of hotline contacts and border flag meetings at the local commanders’ level.
A number of cases of LoC violations by India had been reported by the Pakistan Army. Four civilians were martyred and 10 injured when Indian forces opened unprovoked fire on a border village across the working boundary in Sialkot earlier this year. Pakistan’s DGMO had taken up the issue previously, on April 28, with his Indian counterpart as well.
Published in Daily Times, June 2nd 2018.
