28/02/2019
28/02/2019

MUZAFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) -
Pakistani police say troops deployed in the disputed region of Kashmir
continued trading fire with India overnight, forcing villagers living
near the contested frontier to move to safer places even as the two
nuclear-armed nations appear to be stepping back from the brink.
Police official Mohammad Tahir says cross-border fire continued into
Thursday but there were no casualties. Government buildings in
Muzafarabad, the capital of the Pakistan-controlled section of Kashmir,
are being used to provide shelter to those who fled from border towns.
This comes a day after Pakistan's military said it shot down two Indian
warplanes in Kashmir and captured a pilot, answering an airstrike the
previous day by Indian fighter jets inside Pakistan.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan offered peace talks and India's external affairs minister promised restraint.