Islamabad, Jan 9: Pakistani military today rejected India's contention that its troops had attacked an Indian patrol and killed two soldiers, claiming that it had carried out ground verification and "found nothing of this sort happened."
The Pakistani side conveyed this during a phone conversation between the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of the two sides.
A Pakistani military official, who did not want to be named, said Pakistan's DGMO Maj Gen Ashfaq Nadeem talked to his Indian counterpart Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia on a hotline and rejected the Indian army's "allegations of cross-LoC firing by Pakistani troops and killing any Indian soldier."
"The Indian authorities were informed that Pakistan has carried out ground verification and checked and found nothing of this sort happened as is being alleged by India," the military official said.
"It is mere propaganda by the Indian army," the official claimed.
The Pakistani military had on Tuesday also rejected the Indian army's contention that Pakistani troops had killed two Indian soldiers after crossing the LoC, saying the accusation was aimed at diverting attention from another incident over the weekend.
