India and Pakistan Summon Diplomats After Two Killed in Border Incident

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. Its account presented the deaths as an attack on people who posed no armed threat.

New Delhi rejected that characterization, saying the two were infiltrators who represented a security threat.

The reciprocal diplomatic summons brought the competing accounts into a formal exchange between the two governments. While both sides acknowledged the fatal incident, they remained at odds over the identities of those killed and the threat they allegedly posed.