The Indian and Pakistani forces exchanged fire along the control line (LOC) separating the two countries while the UN calls for a “maximum reservoir” in the middle of the warnings of a wider military escalation after the last deadly attack in the city of Pahalgam of Kashmir.
The cashmere has been divided between India and Pakistan since their independence in 1947, both claiming the territory in whole but by governing distinct parts, leading to persistent tensions which have been transformed into violence over the years.
Friday, the sources of the Indian army told Al Jazeera that the Pakistani party had initiated the shooting. A head of the cashmere government administered by Pakistan also confirmed on Friday at the AFP news agency that the troops had exchanged fires, but did not say who had started the exchange.
“There was no dismissal on the civilian population,” Syed Ashfaq Gilani, the Pakistani official, told AFP.
We did not know in which area along the loc, the exchange of fire took place, but Umar Mehraj of Al Jazeera, postponing cashmere administered by the Indians, said that two people had also been injured during a separate meeting in Bandipora.
On Tuesday, alleged rebels killed at least 26 people in a Pahalgam complex, in the deadliest attack on this quarter of a century of cashmere administered by the Indians.
A declaration published in the name of the Fatrite Resistance (TRF), which would be an emanation from the armed group of Lashkar-E-Taiba based in Pakistanai, claimed the responsibility of the attack.
Indian police have offered a reward of two million rupees ($ 23,500) for information leading to the arrest of the three suspects belonging to the group, an uninated “terrorist organization”.
The fatal incident has since caused an important diplomatic spat between New Delhi and Islamabad, with the withdrawal of India Treaty from the Indus waters, and Pakistan in break a channel irrigation project and by closing its airspace to the Indian airlines in retaliation for the accusations it was involved in the attack.
Tit-for-tat announcements have led relations between nuclear weapons neighbors, who have fought three wars, at the lowest level for years.
In an interview with Al Jazeera Thursday, the Pakistani Minister of Defense, Khawaja Asif, firmly denied the allegations of Islamabad’s involvement in the attack.
“The accusation of Pakistan will not solve the problem” of the Indian “profession” in cashmere, “he said.
“The infiltration of certain armed groups cannot be possible,” he added, citing that the loc is strongly kept.
Friday, the head of the army of India, General Upendra Dwivedi, visit Pahalgam to examine the security agreements in the region.
Prime Minister Narendra modified had promised to track armed men “at the ends of the earth”.
Mehraj d’Al Jazeera, who is in Pahalgam, said security has been strengthened in the region since the deadly attack.
“Security agencies also intensify their repression against the media. Hundreds of people are detained and are questioned for their ties with the attack,” he said.
“Residents also be wary that they are caught in the cross -fires,” added Mehraj.
Meanwhile, Shafqat Ali Khan, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, said that the country was ready to retaliate if India is breaking its rights.
“The army of Pakistan remains fully capable and prepared to defend its sovereignty and its territorial integrity against any mishap,” he said.
“The Pakistani nation remains attached to peace, but will not allow anyone to transgress their sovereignty, security, dignity and their inalienable rights,” added Ali Khan.
