Ambassadors of both countries summoned due to border clash between India and Pakistan

(Jakarta = Yonhap News) Correspondent Son Hyeon-gyu = When an incident occurred in which Indian border guards killed two Pakistanis, both countries passed responsibility to each other and strongly protested by inviting the other country's acting ambassador.

According to Reuters on the 4th (local time), Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on the previous day that Indian border guards killed two Pakistani civilians at the border in the Bedian area near Lahore in eastern Punjab Province on the 2nd.

He added that Pakistani civilians were unarmed at the time and that Indian agents used lethal force without provoking them.

Pakistan's state-run broadcaster PTV also reported, citing security sources, that Indian border guards opened fire on three residents of Kasur district in Punjab province as they crossed a few steps from the border marker, killing two of the three and injuring one.

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry emphasized that it "resolutely rejects any attempt to misrepresent the dead as 'intruders'."

However, India's Ministry of External Affairs refuted that the three Pakistanis had invaded Indian territory and continued to move towards the border fence despite repeated warnings to return to their home country.

He added, "India's border guards had no choice but to respond to the security threat," and pointed out, "This incident shows the pattern of armed drug trafficking organizations operating in Pakistan repeatedly crossing the border."

After this incident, the governments of India and Pakistan each summoned the other country's acting ambassador stationed in their respective countries to protest.

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry urged India's chargé d'affaires to "conduct an immediate, transparent and credible investigation".

India's Ministry of External Affairs also announced that it had summoned Pakistan's chargé d'affaires to protest against continued illegal border incursions.

Previously, on the 15th of last month, Pakistan and India criticized each other after a collision occurred at sea between the two countries' naval vessels and summoned the other country's acting ambassador to strongly protest.

After India and Pakistan gained independence from British colonial rule in August 1947, their enmity has often resulted in conflicts for nearly 80 years.

As soon as independence was achieved, the first war began to take over Kashmir, and last year, when a gun terror attack occurred in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 people, the two countries engaged in an armed conflict that reached the brink of all-out war.

At the time, India pointed to Pakistan as the mastermind behind the Kashmir terrorism, but Pakistan completely denied the allegations.