Foreign office said it summoned India’s diplomatic representative to protest the cross-border firing.
A 75-year-old woman was among the four civilians
wounded in the incident
An 11-year-old girl was killed and four other
villagers critically wounded by Indian troop fire into the
Pakistani-administered side of the Kashmir region, Pakistan’s military said on
Sunday.
The military said the “unprovoked firing” by India
troops using long-range guns and artillery targeted the Pakistani border
villages of Hotspring and Rakhchikri Friday night along the so-called Line of
Control that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
The Pakistani military said a 75-year-old woman was
among the four civilians wounded. The military said its forces responded by
firing at Indian army posts, without elaborating.
Pakistan’s foreign office said it summoned India’s
diplomatic representative to protest the cross-border firing.
In June, Pakistani officials blamed Indian troops
for killing four villagers in the Pakistan region of Kashmir. Days later, they
said Indian shelling again had killed a 13-year-old-girl and wounded her mother
and brother.
The nuclear-armed neighbors each claim the divided
Kashmir region in its entirety. Pakistan and India often trade fire in the
disputed Himalayan region, with both blaming the other side for initiating the
fire.
They have fought two of their three wars over
Kashmir since independence from British rule in 1947.
Tensions have soared between Pakistan and India
since August 2019, when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu
nationalist-led government revoked Muslim-majority Kashmir’s decades-old
semi-autonomous status, touching off anger in Indian-controlled Kashmir and in
Pakistan.
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