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Pakistani and Indian soldiers traded fire across the Line of Control (LoC) on Saturday, Pakistan’s military said. Military spokesman Maj-Gen Athar Abbas said the Indian army fired machinegun bursts and mortar bombs at the Pakistani side of the LoC in the Battal sector of Rawalakot district, where troops had a similar exchange of fire on July 10.
“We immediately responded and fired into the area from where the fire was coming. They later stopped firing,” he told Reuters. He said there were no casualties on the Pakistani side. “We contacted the Indians and lodged a protest and asked for a flag meeting” of the local commanders, he added.
The Indian army denied Pakistan’s claims. Brig Gopala Krishanan Murali, an army spokesman in occupied Kashmir, said the firing had come from the Pakistani side. “Some rogue elements, possibly infiltrators, fired rocket-propelled guns and quickly disappeared,” Murali claimed. “We didn’t return the fire.”
