Border violation: Indian envoy summoned for the fourth time in a week

Pakistan lodges protest with India over ceasefire violations, again

A day after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged both sides to show restraint, Pakistan summoned India's Deputy High Commissioner in Islamabad on Wednesday to lodge strong protest over unprovoked firing by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the Working Boundary and the Line of Control (LoC), Radio Pakistan reported.

Unprovoked Indian firing in Harpal Sector on Wednesday had left a civilian, Muhammad Shareef, dead.

Indian Security Forces also resorted to unprovoked firing at Jandrot, Nakyal and Karela Sectors, as a result of which another civilian was killed and four civilians were injured.

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The Indian envoy was conveyed Pakistan's concerns over the continued unprovoked ceasefire violations by the Indian security forces along the LoC and the working boundary.

Urging India to immediately stop the ceasefire violations, the foreign office asked India to observe the 2003 Ceasefire Understanding.

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Earlier on Sunday, Pakistan’s High Commissioner in New Delhi Abdul Basit said Islamabad is ‘very’ concerned about the recent ceasefire violations by Indian forces along the Line of Control and working boundary.

“There have been 70 ceasefire violations from this [the Indian] side of the working boundary during July and August. We are obviously very concerned about that,” Basit, who was summoned by India’s external affairs ministry earlier in the day, told reporters in New Delhi.