PAKISTAN said on Thursday (15) three of its soldiers and five Indian troops were killed in cross-border exchange of fire in Kashmir region, one of the deadliest clashes between the rival armies this year.
Indian forces have increased firing along the Line of Control (LOC), Major General Asif Ghafoor, the chief spokesman of the Pakistan armed forces, said in a tweet.
"Intermittent exchange of fire continues," Ghafoor tweeted.
A spokesman for the Indian army could not be immediately reached for comment.
The deaths come during a period of heightened tension between the neighbours after India revoked special status of Kashmir, angering Pakistan.
Army personnel stand amid the rubble following an explosion inside the police headquarters at Kohat in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on September 18, 2026. An explosion at a historic police headquarters in northern Pakistan on September 18 killed at least eight people and wounded 35 more, officials said, with the country's president swiftly blaming a militant group. Getty Images
Mourners read the holy Quran while sitting around the grave of a paramilitary personnel of the Frontier Corps (FC) who was killed during the Afghanistan-Pakistan border clashes, in Kohat on October 17, 2025. A ceasefire along the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan was holding on October 16, officials on both sides said, after dozens of troops and civilians were killed in cross-border clashes.Getty Images
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