The Inspector General of Border Security Force (BSF), Rakesh Sharma, on Thursday termed the unprovoked cross-border firing by Pakistani Rangers as shocking and said that New Delhi would register a strong protest against Islamabad for violating the norms of the International Border.
“The Indian side stopped firing when the Pakistan Rangers raised a white flag, asking for time to remove the bodies. But they started unprovoked firing in the midnight,” Sharma said.
“We will stage a strong protest as Pakistan has violated the norms of the International Border,” he added.
The IG of BSF was talking to the media after paying homage to constable Shri Ram Gawaria, who lost his life in yesterday’s cross-border firing.
The latest ceasefire violation comes after Islamabad reportedly summoned India’s Deputy High Commissioner to that country last evening to register its protest over the alleged killing of four Pakistani Rangers by the BSF in the border areas of Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba Sector.
—ANI