Border skirmishes flare in Kashmir

On high alert: A Border Security Force officer checking the passports of Pakistani citizens as they prepare to leave India at the Attari-Wagah border crossing near Amritsar. — Reuters

Pakistani soldiers fired at Indian posts along the highly militarised frontier in disputed Kashmir for a second consecutive night, the Indian military said, as tensions flared between the nuclear-armed rivals following a deadly attack on tourists last week.

India described the massacre, in which gunmen killed 26 people, most of them Indian tourists, as a “terror attack” and accused Pakistan of backing it.