India and Pakistan Summon Diplomats Over Two Border Deaths

India and Pakistan have each summoned the other’s chargé d’affaires following a border incident that left two people dead, escalating a diplomatic dispute over the circumstances of the killings.

Islamabad accused New Delhi of killing two unarmed civilians. Pakistan’s account presented the deaths as the result of Indian action against people who posed no armed threat.

India rejected that characterization, saying the two were infiltrators who posed a security threat.

The reciprocal summons brought the competing accounts into a formal diplomatic confrontation. The information provided did not establish the precise circumstances of the incident or independently verify either side’s claims.