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Pakistan Television, citing Pakistani security sources, said
three unarmed civilians, residents of Kasur district in eastern
Pakistan, had walked a few steps beyond a border pillar when
personnel from India’s Border Security Force opened fire. Two
were killed and a third wounded, it said.
There was no immediate comment from New Delhi, but Indian media
carried a conflicting account, reporting that the men were
suspected of trying to enter India.
The shooting came a day after Pakistan’s military disputed
India’s claim that its security forces had killed a senior
commander from the Lashkar-e-Taiba extremist group in
Indian-controlled Kashmir, presenting a man it said India had
wrongly identified as the dead militant.
Pakistan and India have fought three wars since independence
from British rule in 1947, two over Kashmir. The disputed
Himalayan region is divided between the nuclear-armed neighbors,
both of which claim it in full.
In April 2025, gunmen in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed 26
tourists in an attack that New Delhi blamed on Islamabad. The
violence triggered weeks of escalating clashes, including
missile and drone strikes, bringing India and Pakistan to their
most serious military confrontation in decades.
While India and Pakistan have frequently exchanged fire across
disputed Kashmir in recent years, the international border in
Punjab has remained largely peaceful.
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