INDIA, PAKISTAN TRADE GUNFIRE AS TENSIONS RISE OVER DEADLY KASHMIR ATTACK.
Written by Editor on April 25, 2025
Indian and Pakistani forces have exchanged fire along the Line of Control (LOC) separating the two countries as the UN calls for “maximum restraint” amid warnings of a wider military escalation following the latest deadly attack in Kashmir.
Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since their independence in 1947, with both claiming the territory in full but governing separate portions of it, leading to lingering tensions that have devolved into violence over the years.
Indian army sources on Friday said that the Pakistani side initiated the shooting. A government official in Pakistan-administered Kashmir also confirmed on Friday that troops exchanged fire, but did not say who started the exchange.
It was unclear which area along the LOC the exchange of fire took place in, but report said two people were also wounded in a separate encounter in Bandipora.
