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dated July 1, 1959: Firing across the border

(From an editorial)

It has become more or less habitual for Pakistan to violate India’s north-eastern border. But the latest instance of Pakistan aggression concerns the cease-fire line in Kashmir. Firing by Pakistani troops on a party of Indian soldiers drawing water from a spring well within our side of the ceasefire line has caused casualties. A protest has been lodged with the United Nations observers on the spot. Such violations by Pakistan, however, are nothing new; and the U.N. observers themselves have had more or less first-hand experience of it. Some time in April, the U.N. team investigating a local incident was fired upon with light machine guns by Pakistani troops. Reports indicated that this was done despite of the waving of the U.N. Flag by the team in an attempt to establish its identity. In the weeks preceding this incident there had been several violations by Pakistan of the cease-fire. This was followed by a lull which has now been broken by another similar incident. We trust the U.N. observers will be able to keep Pakistan in check. It would be too much to expect that all the patience should be shown by India while Pakistan, armed by her friends in the West, becomes increasingly intransigent.

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