Pakistan summoned the Indian ambassador yesterday/ on Friday to protest against “unacceptable and unprovoked” attacks by the Indian army that killed two Pakistani soldiers in five days in Kashmir. Pakistan said its soldiers were killed on Sunday and Thursday.

Soldiers carry the flag-draped casket of their colleague Havildar Ghulam Mohyuddin, whom the Pakistan military said was killed by Indian soldiers. PHOTO: REUTERS

On Tuesday, India said two of its soldiers were killed by Pakistani troops and that one of them was beheaded in the disputed Himalayan region, which is claimed in full by both India and Pakistan but ruled in part by each. India said its troops opened fire in response to Pakistani fire on both occasions. Pakistan has denied any responsibility for the Indian soldiers’ deaths. On Friday, Pakistan called on the Indian government to investigate the “repeated” violations of the ceasefire, which has held along the Line of Control (LoC) — the de facto border in divided Kashmir — since 2003 and to take steps to prevent them from happening again. Both countries have appeared determined to prevent the recent killings from wrecking a fragile peace process, which resumed in 2011. Kashmir, a Muslim-majority territory, has been the cause of two of their three wars since independence from Britain in 1947.