Foreign secretary S Jaishankar addresses a press conference on the continued ceasefire violations by Pakistan.

Key points from the presser.

-- Today at 1:35 am, there was infiltration attempt in Jammu sector. I urged our High Commissioner in Islamabad to speak with the Pakistan Foreign Secretary.

--  Pakistan govt has sought to shift responsibility of cross-border firing to the Indian side.


-- India has sought an end to the firing and asks for corrective steps on Pakistan's part.

-- India, Pakistan officials in touch over recent incidents of firing along LoC.

-- The NSA inquired why conversations weren't initiated by Pakistan if firing was started by the Indian side.


-- BSF in Jammu tried to contact officials across the border. Jammu BSF got no response to the demarche. And India retaliated.


-- Pak High Commissioner Abdul Basit said the firing had been initiated by India and the drone belonged to India. Basit said there had been casualities on their side.


-- The drone is not of Indian design, is of Chinese design and is commercially available. It is not used by Indian forces.

Barely a week after Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan broke the deadlock and decided to re-engage, the two countries were back to a blame game over ceasefire violations with both sides lodging protest with each other.

While India lodged protest with Pakistan both in New Delhi and in Islamabad, the Pakistan foreign office summoned Indian high commissioner and lodged strong protest over "air space violation" by an alleged Indian "spy" drone near the Line of Control and "ceasefire violation".