JAMMU, India (Reuters) - The death on Tuesday of two Indian soldiers in Kashmir by New Delhi blamed Pakistan has increased tension between the two former "enemy brothers" of the Indian sub-continent but however, should not degenerate into a diplomatic crisis majeure.
Kashmir, which both claim sovereignty nuclear powers, was the cause of two of the three wars that opposed the partition from 1947.
Pakistan's ambassador to New Delhi was summoned Wednesday to the Foreign Ministry to receive a protest officielle.
The Indian Defense Minister AK Antony, had previously raised an act of "highly provocative" and denounced the mutilation "inhumane" the corpse of a soldier indien.
According to the spokesman of the Northern Command of the Indian Army, the military of the mutilated body was found in a wooded area on the Indian side of the line. He denied Indian media information according to which one of the two victims had been decapitated and the second égorgée.
Tuesday, New Delhi accused the Pakistani military of having, during an incursion into the Indian side of the Line of Control (LoC), killed two soldiers and wounded a third have during a brief fusillade.
These incidents occurred two days after a skirmish along the LoC which, Islamabad, killing one in the ranks of the Pakistani army after Indian incursion. India has denied that its troops have crossed the line contrôle.
For its part, the Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs issued will ease the tension, noting that significant efforts to improve bilateral relations were likely to be lost if the case dégénérait.
RISK OF CLIMBING?
"I think it is important in the long term these events do not turn to the escalation," said Salman Khurshid at a press conference. "We can not and we must not allow an escalation from a morbid event as it is" .
"We must be careful that forces (...) trying to derail what has been done to normalize positive (bilateral relations) do not succeed in their business," said the head of diplomacy Indian without elaborating on these "forces" .
A spokesman for the Pakistani army has "denied Indian allegations of unprovoked firing" and accused New Delhi to engage in a transaction "propaganda" aimed at diverting attention after a border incident occurred 48 hours before in which a Pakistani military had found mort.
A ministry official Pakistani Foreign, meanwhile, downplayed the significance of the incident on Tuesday. "This kind of problems arises for years - I do not think it will have a big impact on the process of talks (peace) in progress," he dit.
"PAKISTAN MUST BE SHOWN THE FINGER"
A senator sitting in the parliamentary committee on national security, Mushahid Hussain, for his part, felt that the Indian government tainted by corruption scandals and facing tough elections in early 2013, amounted to "a bellicose rhetoric of the past reasons of domestic politics ".
"Pakistan has a lot to do with a large-scale insurrection within its borders. Would not it all in the interest of Pakistan to raise the tension along the LoC," said the 'élu.
Pakistani media remain rather discrete coverage of the incident on Tuesday, which is not the case in India, where several commentators television déchaînent.
The first formation of the Indian opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party, has urged the government to condemn the action of Pakistan in the face of the world. "Pakistan should be pointed and denounced as such for this brutal attack," he told reporters the BJP leader Arun Jaitley.
exchanges of gunfire and minor skirmishes are common along the LoC, which runs over 740 km despite a cease-fire and a slow warming of bilateral relations. According to the Indian Army, eight of his men were killed in 2012 on the occasion of 75 incidents.
However, incursions are rare soldiers on both sides and, according to a media India, Tuesday's incident, which occurred about 600 meters from the line, is the most serious since Truce agreed in 2003.
Far from the disputed border and tensions, the Pakistan cricket team - king of sports in this part of the world - has completed a tour Sunday two weeks in India, its first in five ans.
Sanjeev Miglaniwith Arup Roychoudhury and Satarupa Bhattacharjya New Delhi, Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Katharine Houreld Islamabad, Henri-Pierre André, Jean-Philippe and Jean-loup Lefief Fiévet for the French service, edited by Gilles Trequesser
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