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World powers call for calm as India and Pakistan trade fire in Kashmir
Reuters, New Delhi/Srinagar Thursday, 28 February 2019

Indian and Pakistani troops traded fire briefly along the contested border in Kashmir on Thursday morning, a day after the two nuclear powers both downed enemy jets, with Pakistan capturing an Indian pilot.

The United States, China and other world powers have urged restraint from the two nations as tensions escalate following tit-for-tat airstrikes in the wake of a suicide car bombing that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Feb. 14.

On Thursday morning troops from India and Pakistan briefly exchanged fire in Poonch, a district in Indian-occupied Kashmir, according to a statement from the Indian army.

Read more at: https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2019/02/28/World-powers-call-for-calm-as-India-and-Pakistan-trade-fire-in-Kashmir.html