New Delhi, Delhi, India

The Indian and Pakistani armies traded heavy fire on the Line of Control (LoC) on Friday after Pakistan violated ceasefire in Sawjian sector of Poonch district by resorting to shelling with mortars and firing of small arms, news agency ANI reported quoting Defence Ministry sources.

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"At about 8.30 a.m., Pakistan initiated unprovoked shelling using mortars and firing small arms along the LoC in Sawjian sector," Ministry spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Devender Anand was quoted as saying. 

The Indian Army retaliated "befittingly", he added.

Intermittent firing exchanges were still going on.