Pak summons Indian envoy after alleged firing by India

September 22, 2017 21:24

Pakistan today summoned India's High Commissioner here even as it condemned the alleged firing by Indian forces across the Line of Control, in which six Pakistani civilians were killed.

Pakistan's Director General of Military Operations Major General Sahir Shamshad Mirza also established contact on the hotline with Indian counterpart Lt Gen A K Bhatt and discussed the issue of the killing of civilians, the army said.

A Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman said that Acting Foreign Secretary Aitzaz Ahmed summoned Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambawale over "unprovoked ceasefire violations by the Indian occupation forces" in Charwa Sector yesterday.

Ahmed "strongly condemned" the firing which killed six civilians, including four women, and injured 26 others, including 15 women and five children in Bini Sulariyan village.

Many of the affected are seriously injured and the casualties are likely to rise, the FO said.

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