Again, India, Pakistan exchange gunfire

Indian and Pakistani troops connected Saturday exchanged gunfire for a 2nd consecutive time arsenic ties plummeted betwixt the 2 nuclear-armed neighbours aft an onslaught connected tourists blamed connected Pakistani militants killed astatine slightest 26 successful India’s Kashmir region.

According to the Indian Army, its troops responded to “unprovoked” tiny arms occurrence from aggregate Pakistan Army posts that started astir midnight connected Friday on the 740-km (460-mile) de facto borderline separating the Indian and Pakistani areas of Kashmir.

It said Pakistani troops had besides opened up with sporadic occurrence astir midnight connected Thursday, adding that nary casualties were reported from the Indian side.

There was nary contiguous remark from the Pakistani subject astatine the clip of filing this report.

Meanwhile, Kashmir’s constabulary person identified 3 suspects, including 2 Pakistani nationals, who carried retired the April 22 attack.

However, Pakistan has denied immoderate engagement and its defence curate has said an planetary probe was needed into the attack.

DAILY POST reports that aft the attack, India and Pakistan unleashed a raft of measures against each other, with Pakistan closing its airspace to Indian airlines, and India suspending the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty that regulates water-sharing from the Indus River and its tributaries.

The 2 countries reportedly person a decades-old ceasefire statement implicit the disputed portion of Kashmir but their troops inactive speech gunfire sporadically.

They person some claimed Kashmir and person fought 2 of their 3 wars implicit it.