India, Pak. trade fire in Siachen sector

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, NOV. 12. The Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged fire in the Siachen glacier sector on Sunday but there were no Indian casualties, an Army spokesman said today. Both sides traded artillery fire which was initiated by Pakistan in the Gyong sector.

Reacting to a Pakistan Defence Ministry claim that the Indian Army, supported by heavy artillery and mortar fire, had attacked a Pakistani post and that three Indian soldiers were killed, he said it was unfounded. The firing had begun from the Pakistani side and there were ``absolutely no'' Indian casualties.

B. Muralidhar Reddy reports from Islamabad:

The Pakistan Army has claimed that it effectively repulsed an `unprovoked' Indian attack at Gyong sector on Sunday night.

According to the Inter-State Public Relations Directorate (ISPR) of the Pakistan Army, a company of Indian Army comprising more than 60 soldiers, supported by heavy artillery and mortar fire, attacked a Pakistan post in Gyong in a bid to occupy it.

``The soldiers of the Pakistan Army deployed at the post detected the Indian move and successfully repulsed the attack inflicting heavy casualties on the assaulting Indian troops. The bodies of three soldiers are still lying abandoned near the Pakistani post,'' ISPR said.

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