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| Kashmir crisis: India and Pakistan agree 'de-escalation' | Kashmir crisis: India and Pakistan agree 'de-escalation' |
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| India and Pakistan have agreed to "de-escalate" military tensions in Kashmir after a spate of deadly shootings in the disputed territory, officials say. | |
| Their chiefs of operations along the Line of Control reached the agreement in a 10-minute phone call on Wednesday. | Their chiefs of operations along the Line of Control reached the agreement in a 10-minute phone call on Wednesday. |
| Pakistan's military earlier accused the Indian army of killing one of its soldiers with "unprovoked firing" in the territory. | |
| Tensions have risen following deadly exchanges along the border last week. | Tensions have risen following deadly exchanges along the border last week. |
| The Pakistani army's director of military operations had agreed the de-escalation after calling his Indian counterpart to "protest strongly" a "ceasefire violation" by Indian soldiers that killed a Pakistani soldier along the Line of Control (LoC) on Tuesday night. | |
| India has denied the allegation, which comes after separate incidents last week, in which two Indian soldiers and two Pakistani soldiers died. | |
| The Pakistani commander said strict orders had been passed to troops on the LoC to observe a ceasefire that has been in place since 2003, a spokesman for the Indian army, Col Jagdeep Dahiya, told the BBC. | |
| The violence has plunged the neighbours into the worst crisis in relations since the Mumbai attacks of 2008, which were blamed on militants based in Pakistan. | |
| Both sides deny provoking the clashes, which have prompted fears a fledgling peace process under way since February last year looks like it could unravel, says the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi. | |
| On Tuesday, Indian PM Manmohan Singh said the killings of the Indian soldiers last week - one of whom India says was beheaded - was "unacceptable". | |
| For his part, Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said India was "war-mongering" and this was "detrimental to the peace process between the two countries". | |
| Claimed by both countries, Kashmir has been a flashpoint for over 60 years and two wars have been fought over it. Exchanges of fire in the disputed area are not uncommon but rarely result in fatalities. |