{"id":286856,"date":"2018-05-18T11:38:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T06:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=286856"},"modified":"2018-05-18T11:38:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T06:08:38","slug":"pakistan-violates-ceasefire-army-jawan-killed-4-others-injured-in-jk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistan-violates-ceasefire-army-jawan-killed-4-others-injured-in-jk\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan violates ceasefire: Army jawan killed, 4 others injured in J&amp;K"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_224124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224124\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ceasefire_Violation1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-224124 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ceasefire_Violation1-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"Photo PTI\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" data-id=\"224124\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">In an unprovoked firing and violation of ceasefire from Pakistan side on May 18, a BSF jawan (Constable Sitaram Upadhyay, native of Giridih in Jharkhand ) lost his life and four civilians got injured. Pakistani soldiers violated ceasefire along the International Border (IB) in Arnia sector of Jammu on early morning today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Upadhyay was from Giridih in Jharkhand and had joined the force in 2011, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The official revealed that firing initiated from Pakistan\u2019s side on the intervening night of 16 and 17 May in which a BSF jawan was injured. But during the daytime firing stopped which again resumed on May 18 around\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1906633633\">4 am<\/span>\u00a0in the Arnia sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Unprovoked shelling of mortars and heavy fire from the Pakistani side started at about\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1906633634\">4 am<\/span>\u00a0today along the IB in Jammu, which was being \u201csuitably countered\u201d by the BSF units. \u201cThe firing in the RS Pura sector has stopped now,\u201d the\u00a0official confirmed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Due to precautionary measures, the district administration has ordered all government and private schools within the range of 3 km of IB border to be closed in Arnia, Bishnah and RS Pura sectors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The local administration has asked people to avoid unnecessary movement till the time shelling continues from the Pakistan side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\u201cAdequate medical arrangements are being made. Ambulances have been made available. People are requested not to panic,\u201d Deepak Pathania, Station House Office, Arnia said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The incident occurred\u00a0just two days after Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced that termination of offensive operations during the month of Ramzan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unprovoked firing and violation of ceasefire from Pakistan side on May 18, a BSF jawan (Constable Sitaram Upadhyay, native of Giridih in Jharkhand ) lost his life and four civilians got injured. Pakistani soldiers violated ceasefire along the International Border (IB) in Arnia sector of Jammu on early morning today. Upadhyay was from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":224124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39,53],"tags":[1527,1606,1607,1608,48,1566],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}