India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire on the LoC November 2003. However, Defence Minister A.K. Antony had recently disclosed in parliament that 110 incidents of ceasefire violation had taken place along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir since 2006.

Kapoor refused to comment whether the ceasefire violations have the support of Pakistan's leadership.

'That (the support) only the Pakistani leadership can tell. But as far as we are concerned, whenever a ceasefire violation will take place, we will take retaliatory action. We try to exercise maximum restraint but if ceasefire violations continue to happen, we will have to retaliate at some stage,' he said.

The army chief said they had put up a 'multi-tier' defence system to check infiltration at the LoC itself.

'The army is deployed in a multi-tier fashion so that infiltration can be checked at the border itself,' said Kapoor.

There has been a surge in the incidents of cross-border infiltration. Army soldiers foiled an infiltration bid in Gurez sector Wednesday, killing five guerrillas attempting to cross over from Pakistan.