India’s response to “unprovoked” firing from Pakistan along the de facto border for the fourth night in a row was announced on Monday ( Apr 28 ), as it intensifies its search for militants in the area following last week’s deadly attack on tourists in Kashmir.
India has identified two of the three suspected extremists as Pakistanis following the 26-person attack on April 22, despite Islamabad’s denunciation of any position and demand for a natural investigation.
India and Pakistan, who New Delhi accuses of money and urging violence in Kashmir, a region that both countries claim and have waged two wars over, were outraged and grieved in the wake of the assault.
India has put the crucial Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance, and Pakistan has opened its aircraft to Indian flights, leading to a raft of other nuclear-armed countries ‘ measures against one another.
Around evening on Sunday, the Indian Army claimed to have responded to “unprovoked” small arms fire from a number of Pakistan Army posts along the 740km de facto boundary separating the Indian and Pakistani regions of Kashmir. It reported no deaths and provided no additional information.
The Bangladeshi government did not respond to a request for comment.