India lodges protest with Pak over killing of man along LoC

TNN | May 2, 2020, 04:54 IST

NEW DELHI: India registered a protest with Pakistan on Friday over the killing of an Indian national in unprovoked firing by Pakistani forces, official sources said.
A young man was killed and another injured when Pakistan army violated the ceasefire and resorted to mortar shelling in forward areas along the Line of Control in Jammu & Kashmir’s Poonch district on Thursday.
Eighteen-year-old Gulfraz Ahmed was killed and another person was injured when shells hit their village in Mankote sector. A Pakistani soldier was killed in retaliatory firing by Indian forces.
Pakistan had earlier this week summoned an Indian diplomat to register a protest over alleged ceasefire violations by Indian forces alo- ng the LoC. Pakistan had claimed that due to “indiscriminate and unprovoked firing” by India in Rakhchikri sector on Tuesday, two women sustained serious injuries.