The Foreign Office has asked India to beef up security of Pakistani diplomats and high commission staff in the country.
The move comes after a demonstration outside the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi on Wednesday over the killing of Indian soldiers along the Line of Control (LoC).
The Foreign Office summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner Gopal Baglay and asked to convey to the Indian government that Pakistan expected it to protect Pakistani diplomats and staff posted there, the Dawn News reports.
According to the report, the protesters belonging to the Youth Congress demonstrated outside the high commission and the Pakistan House, the residence of the high commissioner, over the killing of five Indian soldiers in an apparent terrorist attack near the LoC.
Pakistani Deputy High Commissioner Mansoor Ahmed Khan was summoned on Tuesday to the Indian ministry of external affairs over the LoC incident.
Pakistan also had accused India on Tuesday of unprovoked firing in Pando Sector, near Muzaffarabad, in which two soldiers were seriously injured.
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The military operations chiefs of the two countries spoke to each other over the hotline in an attempt to calm down tensions.
According to ISPR chief Maj Gen Asim Bajwa, Director General of Military Operations Maj Gen Ashfaq Nadeem told his Indian counterpart said there was no truth in the (Indian) allegation of LoC violation.
The Indian DGMO shared his side's version of the event.
The two sides are now preparing to restart the round and dates for talks on Wullar Barrage and Sir Creek have been proposed by Pakistan, the report added.