CROSS-BORDER TRADE RESUMES

SRINAGAR : A day after cross LoC trade was suspended following ceasefire violation in Uri sector, trade activities were resumed on Friday, with 26 trucks leaving for Muzaffarabad in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) and 14 trucks arriving at the Trade Centre Salamabad in Uri.

The ceasefire violation in north Kashmir’s Uri and Machil sectors on Thursday had left one soldier dead and two others injured.

Senior superintendent of police, Baramulla, Imtiaz Hussain said no ceasefire violation was reported in Uri on Friday. “The cross LoC trade which was suspended on Thursday was also restored,” he said.

Locals in Uri said exchange of firing took place on the forward posts in Kamalkote sector on Thursday and a few shells landed close to a residential house damaging a shed. “Whenever there is ceasefire violation on the LoC, it’s the villagers living close to the LoC who get perturbed,” said a resident of Kamalkote.

ISI MAN HELD IN J&K

The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday said it has arrested an agent of the Pakistan’s InterServices Intelligence (ISI) from Kishtwar, who had been planning to carry-out terror attacks in the communally sensitive district. The accused has been identified as Sehran Sheikh aka Abu Zubair, said Kishtwar district police chief, Rajinder Gupta