Pak releases video ‘showing’ Indian posts destroyed; army denies claim

ISLAMABAD : The Pakistan Army on Sunday released a video purportedly showing destruction caused to the Indian military posts across the Line of Control.

The 27-second video was released a day after it claimed to have killed five Indian soldiers while retaliating to India’s “unprovoked ceasefire violation” in Tatta Pani sector along the Line of Control.

Indian Army sources, however, said the video was fake and fabricated and it suffered no casualties .

Pakistan Army spokesperson Major General Asif Ghafoor posted the video on twitter in the early hours of Sunday.

“Indian unprovoked CFV at Tatta Pani along LOC, violently responded. Indian bunkers destroyed, 5 Indian sldrs (soldiers) killed, many injured,” he tweeted.

In a brief statement issued along with the video , Ghafoor said “Video clip showing destruction of Indian posts on LOC by Pak Army in response to unprovoked Indian firing on innocent citizens”.

This is the second time in two weeks when Pakistan army released such a video.

On May 24, Islamabad had released a video purportedly showing heavy damage caused to the Indian posts across the LoC, in a tit-for-tat action after the Indian Army released a clip of the “punitive fire assaults” on Pakistani positions.

On Saturday, the Pakistani army’s media wing Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) claimed to have killed five Indian soldiers and destroyed Indian bunkers in the firing.

No further details of the cross-border exchange of fire were provided by the officials of Pakistani Army.

Also on Saturday, the Indian Army said that a woman civilian was injured when the Pakistani Army violated ceasefire twice in two sectors of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir by firing mortar shells on forward posts and civilian areas along the Line of Control, prompting Indian troops to retaliate.

INDIAN ARMY DENIED PAK’S CLAIM, STATING THAT THE VIDEO WAS FAKE AND FABRICATED, AND THERE WERE NO CASUALTIES ON ITS SIDE