{"id":47013,"date":"2025-04-27T12:14:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T06:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=47013"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:19:14","slug":"line-of-control-loc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/line-of-control-loc\/","title":{"rendered":"Line of Control (LoC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Line of Control Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Pakistan violated the ceasefire along the Line of Control in the Kashmir Valley by resorting to unprovoked firing, a defence official said recently and added the army responded appropriately.<\/p>\n<h2>About Line of Control<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The LoC is the\u00a0<strong>de facto military boundary between India and Pakistan in the region of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0<strong>not an international boundary\u00a0<\/strong>but a\u00a0<strong>ceasefire line<\/strong>\u00a0that was\u00a0<strong>established after<\/strong>\u00a0the 1<strong>947-48 India-Pakistan war<\/strong>\u00a0over Kashmir.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Then called the Ceasefire Line (CFL)<\/strong>, it was\u00a0<strong>redesignated as the &#8220;Line of Control&#8221; following the Simla Agreement,<\/strong>\u00a0which was signed on 3 July\u00a0<strong>1972<\/strong>, following the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war.<\/li>\n<li>The LoC stretches about\u00a0<strong>740 kilometers,\u00a0<\/strong>from the region of Ladakh in the north down to the Poonch district in the south.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0<strong>heavily militarized,<\/strong>\u00a0with frequent skirmishes and exchanges of fire between Indian and Pakistani forces.<\/li>\n<li><strong>On the Indian side<\/strong>\u00a0of the\u00a0<strong>LoC comes a part of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh<\/strong>. On the\u00a0<strong>Pakistani side<\/strong>\u00a0comes the\u00a0<strong>part of <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pakistan-occupied-kashmir\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistan Occupied Kashmir<\/a> (POK), Gilgit, and Baltistan<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The LoC is\u00a0<strong>different from the International Border (IB),\u00a0<\/strong>which is the officially recognized border between India and Pakistan elsewhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Line of Control FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. The Line of Control (LoC) was established after which conflict?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. 1947-48 India-Pakistan War over Kashmir<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Under which agreement was the Ceasefire Line renamed as the &#8220;Line of Control&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Simla Agreement<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Approximately how long is the Line of Control (LoC)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. 740 kilometers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/pakistan-violates-ceasefire-along-loc-in-kashmir-army-responds-appropriately-defence-official\/article69493363.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Line of Control (LoC) is the de facto military boundary between India and Pakistan in the region of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[368,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-47013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-line-of-control-loc","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}