Pakistan protests ‘repeated, unacceptable’ India violations

Pakistan’s foreign ministry said it summoned India’s high commissioner to Islamabad to lodge a strong protest.


Afp January 11, 2013
Soldiers carry the flag-draped casket of their colleague Havildar Ghulam Mohyuddin, whom the Pakistan military said was killed by Indian soldiers. PHOTO: REUTERS

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan summoned the Indian ambassador on Friday to protest against “unacceptable and unprovoked” attacks by the Indian army that killed two Pakistani soldiers in five days in Kashmir.

Pakistan said its soldiers were killed on Sunday and Thursday.

On Tuesday, India said two of its soldiers were killed by Pakistani troops and that one of them was beheaded in the disputed Himalayan region, which is claimed in full by both India and Pakistan but ruled in part by each.

Pakistan’s foreign ministry said it had summoned India’s high commissioner to Islamabad to lodge a “strong protest on the repeated, unacceptable and unprovoked attacks on Pakistani soldiers by the Indian army”.

India said its troops opened fire in response to Pakistani fire on both occasions. Pakistan has denied any responsibility for the Indian soldiers’ deaths.

On Friday, Pakistan called on the Indian government to investigate the “repeated” violations of the ceasefire, which has held along the Line of Control (LoC) -- the de facto border in divided Kashmir -- since 2003 and to take steps to prevent them from happening again.

Both countries have appeared determined to prevent the recent killings from wrecking a fragile peace process, which resumed in 2011.

Islamabad repeated an offer to hold an independent inquiry through the United Nations and reiterated its commitment to peace talks with India, saying the attacks “create unnecessary and avoidable distractions” to peace efforts.

On the ground, more than 300 people demonstrated in Pakistani-administered Kashmir on Friday, condemning Indian aggression and accusing Indian troops of ceasefire violations, police said.

The crowd condemned the killings of Pakistan soldiers in the state capital Muzaffarabad and dispersed peacefully, local police chief Raja Shafqat told AFP.

The rally was also attended by state premier Chaudhry Abdul Majeed, who accused New Delhi of deliberately disturbing peace in the region and said further protests would be held on Monday.

The United States has urged the nuclear-armed rivals to cool tensions along the heavily militarised LoC.

Kashmir, a Muslim-majority territory, has been the cause of two of their three wars since independence from Britain in 1947.

COMMENTS (28)

Ashfaq Maingal | 11 years ago | Reply

@Girish: I am not surprised how u ppl are brain-washed too... Hats off as well to Indian education system and double hats off to indian media

Lahore Da Jat | 11 years ago | Reply

@Rommel: Truth by what BruteForce said definitely pinched your nerve bad enough that you have no capability left to understand or use the sense of "reasoning". I see you were completely absent in another article where 140 Shias were reported killed in one of the most brutal events of series of explosions. Killing people by bomb is the most cowardly way of killing people. I dont see even a single comment from you not a single line of remorse for what happened. But here fro the death of soldier by hands of Indian has got you rattled enough to not understand this simple lack of sensitivity called compassion in you towards your own countrymen. I guess you are Sunni and you definitely care less who are Shias. For you that news is far less important or just another fodder for your truth deprived brain to take this incident as a plot by RAW / Mossad and CIA to bring bad name to Pakistan ( seriously since it's inception Pakistan never had a good name in history nor any contribution to world, please name one ). So please get your head out of the black hole and start paying attention to your own countrymen.

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