{"id":315054,"date":"2019-09-15T09:12:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T09:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315054"},"modified":"2019-09-15T09:12:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T09:12:53","slug":"21-indians-killed-in-over-2000-ceasefire-violations-by-pakistan-this-year-mea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/21-indians-killed-in-over-2000-ceasefire-violations-by-pakistan-this-year-mea\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Indians killed in over 2000 ceasefire violations by Pakistan this year: MEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_299632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-299632\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299632\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BSF-patroling-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/BSF-patroling-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/BSF-patroling-1-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/BSF-patroling-1-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/BSF-patroling-1-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/BSF-patroling-1-696x483.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/BSF-patroling-1-605x420.jpg 605w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-299632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representational Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More than 2,000 unprovoked ceasefire violations by Pakistan have claimed lives of 21 Indians this year, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe have highlighted our concerns at unprovoked ceasefire violations by Pakistan forces, including in support of cross border terrorist infiltration and targeting of Indian civilians and border posts by them,\u201d Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;This year they have resorted to more than 2,050 unprovoked ceasefire violations in which 21 Indians have died,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe have repeatedly called upon Pakistan to ask its forces to adhere to 2003 ceasefire understanding and maintain peace and tranquillity along the (Line of Control) LoC and (International Border) IB,&#8221; he added<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The developments came amid ongoing tension between India and Pakistan over the abrogation of Article 370 that granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcation of\u00a0the state into two union territories.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2,000 unprovoked ceasefire violations by Pakistan have claimed lives of 21 Indians this year, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Sunday. \u201cWe have highlighted our concerns at unprovoked ceasefire violations by Pakistan forces, including in support of cross border terrorist infiltration and targeting of Indian civilians and border posts by them,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1999],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315054"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315055,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315054\/revisions\/315055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}