The Indian army said on Saturday that an Indian soldier was killed and another wounded in a Pakistani bombing along the border that divides Kashmir between the two nuclear-armed rivals.
The Indian army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel, Devender Anand, accused Pakistani forces of firing mortars and other weapons along the “line of control” in the southern Rajouri district.
Anand described the incident as an “unjustified violation” of the 2003 ceasefire agreement and said that Indian forces responded. Pakistan did not immediately comment.
Jammu and Kashmir Map
In the past, each side accused the other of initiating border skirmishes in the Himalayan region, which the two countries dispute.
The attack comes a week after the killing of nine civilians and six soldiers when Indian and Pakistani forces exchanged artillery fire targeting each other’s sites and villages in multiple locations along the de facto borders.
The death toll was among the highest in recent years in a single day.
Meanwhile, India summoned a Pakistani diplomat on Saturday in New Delhi to protest what it described as Islamabad’s sponsorship of militants carrying out attacks on India, according to the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ statement.
The diplomat was summoned after Indian forces killed four suspected militants in a gun battle in India-controlled Kashmir on Thursday, and said they had retrieved “a huge cache of weapons, ammunition and explosives.”
“The Indian security forces thwarted a major terrorist attack,” the ministry said, adding that the weapons recall “refers to the detailed planning of a major attack” to destabilize “peace and security” in the region.
