Pakistan army rejects Indian LoC firing claim

Pakistan military Tuesday denied claim by Indian army that Pakistani forces have attacked an Indian post and killed five soldiers in the disputed Kashmir region.

Indian defence officials said that Pakistani troops attacked an Indian post along the Line of Control in the Poonch sector in the disputed Kashmir region late Monday night, killing five Indian soldiers.

Indian media quoted defence sources as saying on Tuesday said the Pakistani soldiers intruded into its occupied part of Kashmir midnight and ambushed the Sarla post on the Indian side of the LoC, which divides Pakistan and India in Kashmir.

Pakistan army rejected the Indian claim.

Military officials told the media that Pakistani forces had not been involved in any firing at the Indian post.

“No such incident has taken place on the Line of Control,” an official of the army’s Inter-Services Public Relations said.

Pakistan declared a unilateral ceasefire along the LoC in 2003 which was positively responded by India.

Guns had been relatively silenced since then however border troops some time trade fire. Both sides routinely accuse each other of violations.

The LoC escalations started in January this year when skirmishes between armies of two nuclear neighbors claimed lives of five troopers, two from India and three from Pakistan.

The latest incident comes at a time when the new government in Pakistan is trying to normalize relations with India.

Officials say that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is scheduled to meet his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York in September.

Pakistan said last week that it has proposed dates to India for resumption of the official dialogue and awaits Indian response. 

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