Military: Pakistani civilian dies in cross-border Indian shelling

A Pakistani national was killed and four others wounded in Indian cross-border shelling on Sunday, military officials said.
They said Indian Border Security Force opened "unprovoked firing" at the "Working Boundary" in the Sialkot district in a disputed border area between Pakistan and India.
Pakistan describes the border area around Sialkot in Punjab province as the Working Boundary as it runs between the end of the international border between Pakistan and India from southern Sindh to Punjab and the beginning of the Line of Control, the de facto border between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.
A spokesman for the paramilitary force Rangers said that the firing affected Thatti and Harpal villages near the border with Indian. He said that Punjab Rangers responded to Indian firing effectively.
Three women and a child injured were shifted to Combined Military Hospital in Sialkot, a major city in the region, for medical assistance.
Locals also reported that the shelling and firing from across the border had also killed several livestock.
The recent firing occurred after a lull of several weeks as relations have seen a substantial improvement after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited India to attend the inauguration of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in May.
On July 16, two Pakistani soldiers were wounded in an exchange of fire between Indian and Pakistani forces in Charwah sector near Sialkot.
Pakistan and India declared a ceasefire along the LoC in 2003 and guns have been relatively silent since then.
Both countries accuse each other of violating of ceasefire along the LoC, which divides the two countries in Kashmir region.
Kashmir, the Himalayan region divided between India and Pakistan is claimed by both in full. Since their Independence from Britain, the two countries have fought three wars, two exclusively over Kashmir.