SRINAGAR, India Indian forces captured a Pakistani militant on Wednesday after a deadly attack on a military convoy in the disputed Kashmir region, Indian officials said.
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The Pakistan foreign ministry accused Indian troops of “unprovoked firing” and targeting villages across the border that killed two civilians aged 14 and 22 and injured seven.
Six civilians were wounded in the Bajwat sector near Sialkot, a city in the eastern Punjab province of Pakistan, while four Indian civilians were also reportedly injured in the firing and mortar shelling.
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the army, said on Tuesday in statement that the Pakistani troops befittingly responded to Indian shelling.
Requesting not to be quoted, he believed India’s military posturing and actions at Working Boundary and Line of Control (LoC) had two objectives – sidetracking Pakistan’s efforts fighting terror on Pak-Afghan border and sabotaging Pakistan’s plans to expose New Delhi’s real face to the world in the upcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting.
“It was an attempt at infiltration”.
Two paramilitary soldiers and one suspected rebel were killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday after a convoy of paramilitary troops was ambushed in the troubled region, police said.
A 2003 cease-fire between India and Pakistan largely has held despite small but regular skirmishes.
At least eight soldiers were wounded in the attack, said police Director-General K. Rajendra.
Thousands of Kashmiris have died through the indiscriminate use of force and torture, firing on demonstrations, custodial killings, encounters and detentions by the Indian Armed Forces. rape also occurs during the crackdowns, he had alleged.
Pakistan and India have fought two of their three wars over competing claims to Kashmir.
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The fighting has left tens of thousands, mostly civilians, dead.
