File Photo: An Indian Army soldier at the border (PTI)
Hours after India and Pakistan held a flag meeting to defuse tension along the border, Pakistani rangers fired at three Indian posts at the same sector of Jammu where soldiers from both sides met.
Pakistan rangers targeted three Border Security Force (BSF) posts using small arms and machine guns. The firing started at 11 pm and went on intermittently till 6 am.
At the flag meeting, Pakistan soldiers had accused India of "blatantly firing on Pakistani positions" in violation of the 2003 ceasefire, according to a Press Trust of India report.
The Pakistanis reportedly demanded a meeting between more senior officers from both sides.
"There was no positive movement that could have ended the present situation of ceasefire violations that has emerged from Pakistan's side over the last few days. The meeting achieved no result," a source told PTI.
India alleges that in the last two weeks, there have been more than 20 ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the Line of Control or the de-facto border between the two countries.
"The continuous firing from Pakistan over the last fortnight is the heaviest cross-border firing I've seen since the 1971 war," DK Pathak, the chief of the Border Security Force, told NDTV on Tuesday.
India last week called off talks in Islamabad after the Pakistani envoy in Delhi met Kashmiri separatists despite New Delhi warning, "Talk to us or talk to separatists."
Last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Kashmir and accused Pakistan of using militants to conduct "a proxy war" against India. Pakistan denounced the charges as "baseless" and said India should steer clear of "a blame game."