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Pakistan's foreign ministry called the Indian Deputy Commissioner to register a protest over what it described as unprovoked firing by Indian troops across the Line of Control, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday.
Deputy High Commissioner Rahul Kulshreshth was called in by Afrasiab Mehdi Hashmi, director general (South Asia) in the foreign office on Monday and handed a protest note over the reported incident of firing across the LoC, the sources told PTI.
The note also asked the Indian government to take steps to prevent the recurrence of such incidents, they said.
The protest related to a reported incident of firing in the Rawlakot sector of the LoC in which the Pakistan army said one of its soldiers was killed and another injured.
Both countries have exchanged allegations of each other's troops resorting to unprovoked firing across the LoC in recent weeks.