Indian, Pakistani army hold talks to ease LoC tension in Jammu

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In the wake of growing skirmishes on the Line of Control (LoC) in the Jammu region, the Indian and Pakistani army on Friday (February 21, 2025) held a meeting in the Pir Panjal valley’s Poonch district in a bid to reduce the heightened tension sparked by recent skirmishes.

An official said a brigade-commander level flag meeting was held between 10.30 and 11 a.m. at the Chakkan-Da-Bagh crossing point in Poonch. The meeting, which lasted for more than an hour, apparently discussed the recent tension on LoC and measures to reduce it. However, no joint statement was issued after the meeting nor the measures discussed were disclosed by the Army. 

Officials said the meeting was aimed at “pushing peace on the LoC and to abide by the commitment made in the 2003 and 2020 ceasefire agreements” between India and Pakistani armies.

The meeting between the Indian and Pakistani armies came in the wake of two fresh incidents of explosion and firing on the LoC in Poonch district in the past 24 hours. An explosion close to LoC was reported on Friday morning. However, the cause of the explosion was not disclosed immediately by the security officials.

Since 2020, India and Pakistan have been by and large maintaining a ceasefire on the LoC. 

This year, both Indian and Pakistani armies accused each other of violating the agreement and resorting to “unprovoked firing”. 

The Indian Army on February 16 accused the Pakistani Army of resorting to “small arms firing” on an Indian post. According to the Pakistani newspaper, Dawn, two Pakistani soldiers were injured in “an unprovoked ceasefire violation by Indian troops in the Deva and Bagsar sectors” on February 12.

Besides the cross-border firing, the Jammu region witnessed over six skirmishes on the LoC in Jammu, Rajouri and Poonch districts in the past two months, which included sniper attacks too.

Two soldiers, including a Captain, were killed in an improvised explosive device (IED), and at least two other soldiers were hit by snipers. It remains “inconclusive if the Pakistani Army or the militants” were involved in these attacks. Two infiltrators were also killed in this period in Poonch.