NEW DELHI: India\u2019s foreign minister said Thursday that those who planned and carried out an attack in Kashmir last week that left 26 men dead \u201cmust be brought to justice.\u201d
\nNew Delhi blames Pakistan for the gun attack on civilians at the tourist site of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22.
\nIslamabad has rejected the charge and both countries have since exchanged gunfire in Kashmir and issued a raft of tit-for-tat punitive diplomatic measures.
\n\u201cIts perpetrators, backers and planners must be brought to justice,\u201d India\u2019s top diplomat Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said in a statement following a conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday evening in which they discussed the attack.
\nRubio also spoke to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and in a US readout of the call, told Sharif of the \u201cneed to condemn the terror attack\u201d in Kashmir.
\nIndian and Pakistani soldiers fired at each other overnight along the Line of Control, the de facto border in contested Kashmir, the Indian army said.
\nIt was a seventh straight night gunfire was reported by India.
\n\u201cDuring the night… Pakistan Army posts initiated unprovoked small-arms fire across the Line of Control opposite Kupwara, Uri and Akhnoor,\u201d the army said in a statement.
\n\u201cThese were responded proportionately by the Indian Army.\u201d
\nThere were no reported casualties and there was no immediate confirmation from Pakistan.
\nIndian police have issued wanted posters for three men accused of carrying out the Kashmir attack \u2014 two Pakistanis and an Indian \u2014 who they say are members of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba group, a UN-designated terrorist organization.
\nIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the military \u201ccomplete operational freedom\u201d to respond to the attack during a closed-door meeting on Tuesday, a senior government source told AFP.
\nPakistan\u2019s government has denied any involvement in the shooting and vowed that \u201cany act of aggression will be met with a decisive response.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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