Source : NEW INDIAN EXPRESS NEWS
‘See and hear’
More than 70 people were killed on both sides, the worst conflict since 1999, before a ceasefire was agreed on May 10.
It is still holding and the LoC is again quiet.
Diplomatically, New Delhi and Islamabad seem back to an uneasy peace, trading long-standing accusations that the other supports militant groups operating in their territory.
Islamabad blamed India on Wednesday for a bomb attack on a school bus that killed six people, which New Delhi called a “baseless” allegation and said it was “second nature for Pakistan to blame India for all its internal issues”.
India expelled a Pakistani diplomat on Wednesday, the second since the ceasefire deal.
Soldiers from either side eye each other warily across the razor’s edge of the LoC that slices through the territory, home to some 17 million people and which each side claims in full.
The Indian officer pointed to a green ridge where he said Indian and Pakistani posts were about 30-40 metres apart.
“There are many such places across the frontline,” he said.
“Our soldiers can see and hear the other side at such posts,” said the officer, who could not be identified because he did not have official clearance to speak to the media.
“There is even hooting at times, but no conversations.”
When the hooting does happen, it is sometimes to taunt the other during rare cricket matches between the rival nations.
For the Indian forces, the Pakistani soldiers can be the only other humans they see outside their unit for weeks when snow cuts them off in the winter months.
SOURCE :- NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
