When did Pakistan break the ceasefire? It did not stop even after the Pahalgam terror attack, India gave a befitting reply

News Topical,Digital Desk : After the barbaric terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, the Pakistani army has violated the ceasefire agreement (India Pakistan Ceasefire) several times. This is the same agreement which was implemented again in February 2021 and which reduced the number of violations significantly.

Officials have confirmed that since last Wednesday's terror attack, there have been 12 incidents of unprovoked firing by the Pakistan Army.

So far, only two ceasefire violations were recorded before the Pahalgam attack in the year 2025. But by this morning, this number increased to 14. Army sources said that after the agreement between India and Pakistan in 2021, incidents of firing on the International Border (IB) and the Line of Control (LoC) had become almost negligible. According to the records of the Indian Army, only four violations were recorded in the three years from 2022 to 2024.

Before 2021, the number of ceasefire violations was increasing every year

There was one ceasefire violation in 2022, none in 2023 and two incidents in 2024. The situation was different in the early months of 2021. A total of 664 violations were recorded between January and June that year, most of them before the February agreement. 380 ceasefire violations were recorded in January 2021 and 278 in February, all along different parts of the 740-km-long LoC.

In response to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai had said that only six violations were recorded in the four months after the agreement. At that time, an official statement said that after scheduled talks between the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of India and Pakistan on 25 February 2021, a joint statement was issued in which both countries talked about 'strict observance of ceasefire on the LoC and all other sectors'.

Firing incidents increased continuously from 2018 to 2020

The reply of the Minister of State for Home also revealed that there were 2140 ceasefire violations in 2018, 3479 in 2019 and 5133 in 2020. A defence source said that if more than 25 rounds of fire are fired from small arms or heavy artillery on a post, it is considered a ceasefire violation.

Ceasefire violations were reported in Baramulla, Kupwara and Poonch districts on Sunday night, indicating that these incidents have now started spreading from North Kashmir to Jammu region. The Indian Army also retaliated from unknown places. Earlier, on April 1, the Pakistani Army had opened unprovoked firing after a mine blast in Poonch district.

The Indian Army gave a befitting reply on many fronts

After the Pahalgam attack, Indian forces have also responded to Pakistani firing in Uri, Tangdhar and Gurez sectors. The Indian Army has also retaliated strongly in the districts where ceasefire violations took place on Sunday night.

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