{"id":29200,"date":"2016-10-06T03:38:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T03:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/india-pakistan-armies-exchange-more-fire-in\/"},"modified":"2016-10-06T03:38:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T03:38:47","slug":"india-pakistan-armies-exchange-more-fire-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/india-pakistan-armies-exchange-more-fire-in\/","title":{"rendered":"India-Pakistan armies exchange more fire in Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"

{One woman wounded in alleged unprovoked attack from India’s side, followed by tit-for-tat artillery barrages.}<\/p>\n

Artillery fire continued between nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India across the de facto border in Kashmir as tensions ratchet up after a deadly attack on Indian soldiers last month.<\/p>\n

Pakistan’s military alleged that Indian forces fired without provocation on Wednesday, an attack that wounded one woman but did not cause substantial damage on Pakistan’s side of the divided Himalayan territory.<\/p>\n

Forces from Pakistan then retaliated. <\/p>\n

“Around 5pm there was heavy firing going on continually. Everyone was scared and harassed and came out of their homes,” Mirza Hamid, a resident in Bhimber district, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

“The firing is still ongoing … we still can hear it.” <\/p>\n

Mehmood, 35, from the Kotli district, described “extreme” shelling and mortar fire that calmed down after 7pm local time.<\/p>\n

“People are very scared. There are no cars on the road. We have seen this kind of shelling so many times before … People had to leave those homes,” he said.<\/p>\n

Calls to Indian military officials in the region seeking comment rang unanswered. <\/p>\n

Pakistani sources say there has been frequent movement in recent days of military equipment towards the Line of Control – the de facto border separating Indian and Pakistani-administered Kashmir.<\/p>\n

Mirza Arshad, a police deputy commissioner, told Al Jazeera that 100 to 150 people had been evacuated on Wednesday after the shelling and were sheltering in schools in Bhimber district.<\/p>\n

“There was firing for about 1-1.5 hours … but there’s no report of any human losses,” he said.<\/p>\n

Muslim-majority Kashmir is claimed in its entirety by both India and Pakistan. The two countries have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947 – two over Kashmir.<\/p>\n

The latest tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours follow the killing of 18 Indian soldiers in a cross-border attack by suspected Kashmiri rebels in Indian-administered Kashmir last month.<\/p>\n

In response, India’s military said it had conducted “surgical strikes” against “terrorist units” on Pakistan’s side of the border. Pakistan rejected the claims as an “illusion”. <\/p>\n

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