India and Pakistan Tuesday agreed to observe calm along the Sialkot-Jammu working boundary after days of skirmishes which have been the worst in a decade, BBC Urdu website reported. A meeting between officials of Pakistan Rangers and India’s Border Security Forces (BSF) was held on Tuesday in which maintaining the decade-long ceasefire was agreed. The meeting was kept confidential from becoming public. However, Indian media quoted BSF official JS Singla as saying: “The meeting was held in a conducive atmosphere.” A 2003 ceasefire between the two countries has largely held for the past 10 years, although sporadic violations are common. In recent days, however, the skirmishes had escalated significantly.
