India and Pakistan summoned senior diplomats from each other this Saturday over a border incident that occurred on October 2, with New Delhi rejecting Islamabad’s claim that Indian forces had killed two unarmed Pakistani civilians.
The Pakistani Foreign Ministry said on early Saturday that members of India’s Border Security Force had used ‘unprovoked lethal force’ against two unarmed Pakistani civilians in the Bedian sector, along the international border, on Friday.
‘Pakistan categorically rejects any attempt to mischaracterize the deceased as ‘infiltrators’,’ the ministry said in a statement.
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Pakistan said it summoned the Indian chargé d’affaires to present a protest over the incident and demanded an ‘immediate, transparent and reliable investigation’.
The Indian Ministry of External Affairs later rejected what it called ‘baseless and motivated’ allegations and said it had summoned the Chargé d’affaires of the Pakistan High Commission to protest against the ‘continued facilitation of illegal cross-border infiltrations from Pakistan’.
The ministry said that three people had crossed into Indian territory in the Bedian sector, in Punjab, and continued moving toward the border fence, despite repeated warnings to return to Pakistan.
‘The BSF was compelled to intervene against them as they posed an imminent threat to security,’ the ministry said.
India said the incident reflected ‘a clear pattern of repeated cross-border movements by armed criminal organizations involved in the trafficking of medicines that operate from Pakistan’ and urged Islamabad to investigate what it described as cross-border infiltration and medicines smuggling activities.
India also urged Pakistan to respect the international border, observe bilateral accords and ensure that its forces prevent unauthorized movements from its territory.
Relations between the two nuclear-armed rivals have been tense since a four-day war in 2025 — the worst in decades —, followed by a militant attack on tourists in Indian Kashmir that killed 26 people.
New Delhi accused Pakistan of backing the attack, which Islamabad denied.
