ASIA | Islamabad denies haberles killed India: 'The death of two soldiers should not lead to an escalation with Pakistan'

The Indian Foreign Minister has condemned the death "unacceptable" two Indian soldiers during an exchange of fire at the border with Pakistan.However, it has been estimated that this incident should not lead to an "escalation ". "Whatever it is what happened, there should be an escalation. We can not and must not allow an escalation," Salman Khurshid insisted during a press conference. Few minutes before, the Indian Defense Minister, AK Antony, had described as "provocation" the death "inhuman" two Indian soldiers -one of them decapitated - in the region of Kashmir , which accuses Pakistani troops, which Islamabad denies. The minister told local media that the raid by Pakistani troops into Indian territory is "very provocative" and considered that "the way they treated the bodies of Indian soldiers was inhumane . " Military spokesmen said several Indian media that one of the soldiers was "severely maimed" and although did not elaborate, the newspaper 'Times of India' statements collected from unidentified sources who claimed he had been " decapitated ". The incident occurred early on Tuesday, two days after a similar one in which one Pakistani soldier died in Punch district, located in the Indian part of the mountainous region, where the Indian military patrolling the area. New Delhi blamed the clash start a pre launch mortars from Pakistan to India and the Indian Foreign Ministry denied in a statement that his country's troops crossed the so-called Line of Control (LoC ).

Historical Background

Such incidents are relatively common in this region, that Pakistan and India are disputed since the partition of the subcontinent and its independence from Britain in 1947. Both countries are endowed since the late '90s with the nuke and have fought two wars and other smaller conflicts in the past six decades for the sovereignty of Kashmir. They also have tens of thousands of troops deployed on the border cashmere, one of the most militarized in the world. Islamabad and New Delhi resumed in 2011 the peace process that India had suspended three years ago because of the attacks in 2008 by Pakistani terrorists in the city of Mumbai, which left 166 dead and 300 wounded.Among other objectives, this dialogue process is intended to resolve the dispute over Kashmir.