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Pakistan says Indian troops opened fire in Kashmir region

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, Dec 24, IRNA
Pakistan-India Firing
Police in Pakistan's administered Kashmir say that Indian forces fired into its territory along the Line of Control (LoC), which divides the two countries in the disputed Kashmir region.

Pakistan and India had announced ceasefire along LoC in November 2003 and guns had been almost silence since then.

A police officer in Bhimber district in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir Ibrar Haider said that Indian forces fired from its part into Chum sector in Pakistani Kashmir late last night.

There was no information of any casualty, Haider said.

This is the first claim by Pakistani officials of firing after the last month Mumbai attacks, which India alleges were planned and carried out by Pakistani militants.

Haider said that Indian troops used small weapons and the firing started at 8:45 p.m., and continued for 15 minutes. He said no one was killed or injured.

Tension mounted between Pakistan and India after the November 26 Mumbai attacks as New Delhi blamed two Pakistani militant groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawaa for carrying out these attacks.

Incidents of exchange of fire along the LoC take place time to time but it is the first time Pakistan alleged of Indian firing after the Mumbai attacks.

Exchange of firing has been limited on check posts so far, which has not affected people living on both sides of the LoC. However, Pakistani officials had alleged in September of Indian firing in Hajeera sector, injuring a woman.

Pakistani fighter jets started monitoring the LoC and border areas with India on Monday due to growing tension with India over Mumbai attacks.

Spokesman for the Pakistan Air force Air (PAF) Commodore Hamayun Waqar says, "In view of the situation, PAF has enhanced vigilance." Pakistani fighter planes were seen hovering over the capital Islamabad, the neighboring garrison city of Rawalpindi, the eastern border city of Lahore and areas near LoC in Kashmir.

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