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Ceasefire with Pakistan `holding on`: Indian army chief

IRNA

Guwahati, Jan 3, IRNA -- India said ceasefire with Pakistan was 
`holding on` although its troops were prepared to meet any 
challenge from across the border. 
"The ceasefire is holding on well and there has been no 
exchanges of fire between the two armies," Indian army chief 
General N.C. Vij told journalists in Guwahati, capital of India`s 
northeastern state of Assam on Friday. 
"Our troops are fully prepared to meet any eventualities and we 
are not at all complacent." The army chief said there were four 
instances of attacks along the border during ex-filtration or 
infiltration of militants during the past one month. 
"There has been a marginal decline in the number of militant 
camps across the border. In any case during the winter, the camps 
are always less," Gen Vij said. 
The general, however, said the militants on either side of the 
border were still maintaining links. "We are intercepting a large 
number of communication messages almost everyday," the army chief 
said. 
The two armies of India and Pakistan are observing a ceasefire 
that went into effect from Tuesday midnight. The ceasefire covers 
the disputed 760-kilometer (471-mile) Line of Control (LoC) 
separating the Indian and Pakistani zones of the Himalayan 
border region, the 230-kilometer (143-mile) undisputed border and 
the Siachen glacier in the far north. 
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