Unprovoked firing by Indian troops martyred one Pakistan Army soldier and hurt another at the Line of Control (LoC) on Saturday.
The army’s media wing Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement that one of its soldiers, “embraced martyrdom due to unprovoked Indian firing” at the LoC’s Naizah Peer Sector near Rawala Kot, a town in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
“Indian troops violated the ceasefire once again,” the statement said.
“Resultantly Asim Iqbal embraced ‘Shahadat’ (martyrdom) and Naik Muhammad Khan was injured,”it added.
Pakistan and India, two nuclear-armed neighbouring nations had exchanges at the disputed border of Kashmir last year as well when three Pakistani soldiers and two Indian soldiers were killed.