Indian, Pakistani troops clash on Kashmir border: army spokesman
A group of Pakistani troops crossed the Kashmir border on Monday and shot dead an Indian soldier, sparking a gun battle, an army spokesman said.
By Agencies |
NEW DELHI: A group of Pakistani troops crossed the Kashmir border on Monday and shot dead an Indian soldier, sparking a gun battle, an army spokesman said.
"Between 10 and 12 Pakistani soldiers crossed the Line of Control and entered the Kupwara sector (in Indian Kashmir), and after a verbal duel they shot dead a soldier," Indian army spokesman Anil Kumar Mathur said.
He said the killing triggered an exchange of fire, which was continuing into the evening.
According to the spokesman, the soldiers crossed 200 metres (yards) into Indian territory to "object to the setting up of a post by Indian army soldiers."
The incident was in a mountainous area north of Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar.
"I don't have any information about this incident right now," chief Pakistani military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told AFP in Islamabad.
Pakistan and India agreed to a ceasefire in November 2003 along the Line of Control, and the two sides launched a peace process in January 2004.
The complaint of an incursion by Pakistani troops is the first to be made by India since 1999, when the nuclear-armed South Asian rivals fought a mini-war in the Kargil peaks along the Line of Control dividing Kashmir.
"Between 10 and 12 Pakistani soldiers crossed the Line of Control and entered the Kupwara sector (in Indian Kashmir), and after a verbal duel they shot dead a soldier," Indian army spokesman Anil Kumar Mathur said.
He said the killing triggered an exchange of fire, which was continuing into the evening.
According to the spokesman, the soldiers crossed 200 metres (yards) into Indian territory to "object to the setting up of a post by Indian army soldiers."
The incident was in a mountainous area north of Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar.
"I don't have any information about this incident right now," chief Pakistani military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told AFP in Islamabad.
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Pakistan and India agreed to a ceasefire in November 2003 along the Line of Control, and the two sides launched a peace process in January 2004.
The complaint of an incursion by Pakistani troops is the first to be made by India since 1999, when the nuclear-armed South Asian rivals fought a mini-war in the Kargil peaks along the Line of Control dividing Kashmir.
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