ISLAMABAD:
Islamabad and Delhi traded words on Thursday over the Line of Control skirmishes which had left four people dead in Pakistan, a response to Pakistani troops shooting down an Indian spy drone in their territory.
The reignited tensions threatened to reverse the progress made during the July 10 meeting in Russian town of Ufa between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for de-escalating tension in the relationship.
Indian High Commissioner TCA Raghavan was summoned to the Foreign Office over the troubling incidents that took place during the past few days along the LoC and WB, including the unprovoked firing by Indian forces, Pakistan’s airspace violation by an Indian unmanned aerial vehicle and India’s helicopter manoeuvres.
