India summoned Pakistan's charge d'affaires after the Border Security Force said it shot two men at the Punjab international border, and rejected Islamabad's claim that they were civilians.
India on Saturday summoned Pakistani charge d'affaires Saad Warraich after Border Security Force personnel shot two men along the international border in Punjab's Tarn Taran district. The Ministry of External Affairs said the protest concerned what it called continued facilitation of illegal cross-border infiltration from Pakistan.
Pakistan had earlier summoned India's charge d'affaires in Islamabad and described the dead men as unarmed civilians, The Hindu reported. New Delhi said it rejected those allegations about the 2 October incident in the Ferozepur sector as baseless.
According to the MEA account carried by PTI, three people entered Indian territory and continued toward the fence after warnings to return. One turned back. The BSF then fired on the other two, whom Indian officials called an imminent threat. India also raised drug smuggling and asked Pakistan to control movement from its side of the border.
The Hindu said the two governments traded charges through the reciprocal summons on Saturday. News18 reported a BSF account that the men had provoked troops and said they intended to enter India. Those details come from official and force statements, not from an independent scene investigation published so far.
No joint inquiry had been announced by Sunday morning. Both sides have left the incident as a diplomatic protest rather than a published agreement on what the men were doing when they were shot.
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- Indian official statements framed the dead men as infiltrators who ignored warnings.
- Pakistan's foreign ministry described them as unarmed civilians.
- Indian newspaper digests treated the exchange of summons as a sharp escalation.