ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday summoned India’s Deputy High Commissioner Gaurav Ahluwalia over a cease-fire violation by Indian troops along the Line of Control (LoC) which killed two civilians in Kashmir.

Dr. Mohammad Faisal, Pakistan’s Director General for South Asia and SAARC, summoned Ahluwalia on August 18 after two elderly residents of Nagrai village – 75-year-old Lal Muhammad and 61-year-old Hassan – were killed in the attack, which also injured a seven-year-old boy, a statement released by the Foreign Office (FO) read.

It added that India forces along the LoC have “continuously been targeting civilian-populated areas...and that this unprecedented escalation in cease-fire violations by India is continuing from the year 2017 when the Indian forces committed 1970 cease-fire violations.”

“Cease-fire violations by India are a threat to regional peace and security and may lead to a strategic miscalculation,” the statement read, adding that “deliberate targeting of civilian populated areas is indeed deplorable and contrary to human dignity, international human rights and humanitarian laws.”

The latest development comes amid heightened tensions between the two countries after New Delhi’s decision to revoke Article 370 which gave special status to Indian-administered Kashmir.