Indian and Pakistani soldiers briefly exchange fire along the Kashmir border

India and Pakistan exchanged the fire along their highly patrolled and disputed border in the Kashmir region, increasing tensions between the two nuclear arms neighbors just days after a terrorist attack killed 26 people on the Indian side of the disputed region.

The Pakistani soldiers first shot an Indian position and Indian responded in kind, according to local reports, who declared that the exchange was brief and that there were no victims. Indian and Pakistani officials did not immediately respond to requests for comments.

Tensions between the two countries, the archival for decades, quickly dropped this week after activists Little 26 peopleMainly tourists, in a picturesque meadow near Pahalgam, a popular destination in cashmere on Tuesday.

India called for the shooting of a terrorist attack without blaming a specific group, but it took a series of punitive measures against Pakistan, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of India saying that there were “cross -border links”. India announced Wednesday that it would retrograde diplomatic links and Draw on a treaty of water sharing several decades which is particularly essential in PakistanAmong other measures.

Pakistan has denied links with the attack and its Minister of Defense said this week that the country does not “maintain any form of terrorism”. On Thursday, the Pakistani government announced reprisal measures against India, including the closure of its airspace to Indian carriers.

On Friday, his Senate unanimously adopted a resolution condemning what it called “frivolous and baseless” attempts to link the country to the militant attack to the cashmere, rejecting allegation and accusing New Delhi of using “terrorism” as a political tool.

“The sovereignty, security and the interests of the country require India to be held responsible for its involvement in various acts of terrorism and targeted assassinations on the ground of other countries, including Pakistan,” said the Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan on Friday.

Speaking of the massacre this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India promised that the country “would identify, follow and punish all terrorists and their donors”.

But the terrorist attack by Cashmere activists, one of the most strictly controlled borders in India, took its government to the deprived, leading to a rare example where the higher members of Mr. Modi’s office admitted to political rivals that there had been a major security.

During a two -hour meeting organized by the Bharatiya janata ruling party on Thursday, opposition leaders declared their support for government fight against terrorism. But many have also asked net questions about security failures, as well as how an intelligence period may have led to one of the worst attacks on Indian civilians for decades.

Kiren Rijiju, the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs in India, was one of the officials who conceded that there had been a delay. He told journalists that such an incident “should not perform in the future”.

In their search for attackers, the Indian authorities demolished the houses of two people who, according to them, were suspected of being activists in the Pahalgam region.

The growing tensions between India and Pakistan, which led three wars on cashmere, were a cause of alarm among many diplomats. Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary General, told journalists on Thursday that “we appeal both the government of Pakistan and the government of India to exercise maximum restraint”.

Zia Ur-Rehman And Nanda showkat Contributed reports.