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Pakistan summons Indian envoy over soldier's death

Xinhua, September 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

Pakistan on Wednesday summoned the Indian envoy in Islamabad and lodged protest over the death of its soldier in Indian firing on Tuesday, officials said.

"The Indian Deputy High Commissioner was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a protest was lodged over the latest unprovoked cease-fire violations by India at the LoC in which a Pakistan Army soldier embraced shahadat (martyrdom) on Sept. 15, 2015 and a civilian got injured in Rawalakot today (16 September)," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The Pakistani military said Indian troops "resorted to unprovoked firing" along the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed Kashmir region and killed a 20-year-old soldier of Pakistan on Tuesday.

The latest cross-border shelling took place just days after Pakistani and Indian border officials agreed to revive a 2003 cease-fire. Both countries accuse each other of violating the cease-fire.

The Foreign Ministry statement said the Pakistani government expressed its deep concern over the continuous unprovoked cease- fire violations by the Indian side at the LoC and targeting of the civilian areas.

It urged the Indian government to stop forthwith the cease-fire violations and observe the 2003 cease-fire arrangement for restoration of peace and tranquillity at the LoC and the working boundary. Endi