Five civilians killed thousands took refuge in disputed Kashmir. Five civilians killed and thousands took refuge in camps in the disputed region of Kashmir.
After some of the most intense fighting between nuclear-armed neighbours Pakistan and India in a decade.
The federal government has decided to convene a meeting of the National Security Committee in the wake of ongoing firing at the Line of Control.
And the working boundary dividing Pakistan and India.
A total of nine Pakistani and eight Indian civilians killed since fighting erupted more than week ago in the mostly Muslim Himalayan region.
Kashmir is claimed by both countries and has been a major focus of tension in South Asia.
Each side accused the other of targeting civilians and unprovoked violations of a border truce that has largely held since 2003.
Five civilians killed thousands took refuge in disputed Kashmir.
While exchanges of sporadic fire are common along the de facto border dividing the region, civilian deaths are unusual.
Five civilians killed thousands took refuge in disputed Kashmir.
Three Pakistani and two Indian civilians were killed on Wednesday.
We are all concerned and want an early solution to it (the fighting),” Air Chief Arup Raha told reporters. “We don’t want to let the issue become serious.
Five civilians killed thousands took refuge in disputed Kashmir.
A senior border security force official said Indian forces retaliated to machine gun and mortar attacks on about 60 positions.
Along a more than 200-km (125-mile) stretch of the border on Wednesday.
Some 18,000 Indian civilians have fled their homes in the lowlands around Jammu due to the fighting.
And take refuge in schools and relief camps.
If India and Pakistan troops have hostility, let them fight.
What we done to them?” said Gharo Devi, 50, in Arnia, where five civilians killed on Monday.
Devi had taken refuge in a school, closed because of the fighting.
In Pakistan, Muhammad Rafiq, a 48-year-old farmer, said he narrowly escaped death.
When a mortar hit his home, causing the mud and straw roof to cave in and blasting his bed into a twisted heap while he was in the washroom.
I so scared I locked myself in,” he said, holding the metal propeller of the mortar that fell on his home.
“Firing has been going on every night. My family cannot stay here.”
Two boys and their grandmother were killed by a mortar as they slept just down the street, he added.
The home littered with bloody bedclothes.
The younger child, a 3-year-old boy, beheaded by the blast, neighbours said.
Pakistani Major General Khan Tahir Javed Khan said the number of mortar rounds and bullets fired had surged in recent weeks.
“It is the most intense in decades,” Khan said of the fighting. “My message to them would be please de-escalate.
