Two Pakistani soldiers were injured or possibly killed in an exchange of machinegun fire along the Line of Control in Kashmir’s Uri sector Tuesday afternoon, hours after five Indian jawans were killed and another injured by Pakistani infiltrators in Poonch.
Army officials said Pakistani troops began “unprovoked” firing towards Indian forward posts in Uri on Tuesday. “Our troops responded in a callibrated manner to unprovoked Pakistani fire from their Baz battalion in the Uri sector. The exchange continued for 90 minutes from 12.30 pm”, a defence spokesman said.
On Wednesday, the two directors-general of military operations used their hotline to discuss the attacks over two days. Pakistan’s DGMO “strongly and categorically” denied that his troops had any involvement in Tuesday’s deadly ambush on Indian jawans in Poonch. But his Indian counterpart reiterated that violations of the November 2003 ceasefire were unacceptable and wouldn’t be tolerated any longer.
During the hotline contact, the Pakistani official also lodged a strong protest over an alleged truce violation by Indian troops in the Pandu sector on Tuesday, which he claimed left two Pakistani soldiers critically wounded.