ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani soldier was killed by shots fired by Indian
forces across the disputed border in Kashmir, a private TV channel
reported on Thursday.
“There was an unprovoked firing by Indian
soldiers in the Keil sector of Neelam valley (in Kashmir) on Tuesday
night,” a Pakistani military spokesman said. One Pakistani soldier
died, he said.
Three Pakistani soldiers were killed in a
cross-border shooting in the same region of disputed Kashmir last week,
though the incidents are unlikely to stop efforts by the two sides in
recent months to improve ties.
India and Pakistan in February
resumed a formal peace process broken off after the 2008 attack on
India’s financial capital Mumbai blamed on Pakistan-based militants,
which killed 166 people.
Despite the tension, a ceasefire
agreed between India and Pakistan in 2003 along the Line of Control,
the defacto border in Kashmir, has largely held. Online
