Pakistani and Indian armies discuss border clashes

Pakistan's military talked to its Indian counterparts Tuesday about recent clashes along the border with the Himalayan region of Kashmir that have killed 20 people in the past week, two army officials said. The director of Pakistan army's military operations spoke with his Indian counterpart in a hotline call to convey his concern over Indian border guards' ‘consistent unprovoked firing on (the) civil population,’ an official said. ‘There was no violation of the 2003 cease-fire accord from India today,’ the official said. The two officials declined to share India's response about the violence that started on Oct. 5 in Kashmir, which is divided between Pakistan and India and which both sides claim in its entirety. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to talk to journalists, according to AP.