An eerie calm prevailed along the 200 km long international border from Kathua to Pargwal sector as Pakistani mortar guns remained silent on Thursday night.br br Significantly, the mortar shelling from across the border stopped after Border Security Force retaliated to continuous ceasefire violations by Pakistani Rangers since the night of October 3rd. As Pakistani Rangers pounded civilian areas on the Indian side with 81 mm mortar shells, the BSF too used equal caliber weapons causing wide spread damage across the border forcing many to ask India for holding a flag meeting to deescalate tension.