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LOC firing: Pakistan summons Indian high commissioner

By Web Desk
October 25, 2017

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has lodged strong protest over unprovoked Indian freeing across the line of control that martyred two women and injured six other civilians.

Citing diplomatic sources,  Geo News reported that the Pakistan Foreign Office summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner to lodge  protest over Indian shelling.

The Indian diplomat was summoned by Director General South Asia Saarc Dr Muhammad Faisal who handed him a demarche over the unprovoked firing.

In a statement issued on  Tuesday, the Pakistan army said  Indian troops resorted to unprovoked firing with Artillery, heavy mortars and automatic weapons along LoC targeting innocent civilian population in Naukot and Qaiser Kot in Lipa Valley.

Two Pakistani women identified as Sumaira Younis and Maryam were martyred and six other people  were injured.