In the face of a fresh encounter in the Kashmir Valley, the army's Director General Military Operations (DGMO) today raised with his Pakistani counterpart India's concerns over movement of terrorists along the LoC.
The Pakistan military, however, rejected Indian Army's concerns and asked it to "share evidence".
DGMO Lt Gen AK Bhat spoke to his Pakistani counterpart through the hotline, amid an encounter between security forces and militants holed up inside a house in Awantipora area of Kashmir's Pulwama district in which two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants and a civilian were killed.
"The DGMO spoke to the Pakistan Army DGMO this morning. He expressed concern regarding the movement of terrorists noticed along the Line of Control (LoC)," a senior Army official said.
Pakistan military spokesman Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor tweeted later that, "Indian concern on terrorists' movement along LoC were strongly rejected during (the) hotline (call). Indian Army asked to look inward, share evidence."
The Pakistani DGMO was also informed about the repatriation of two Pakistani nationals arrested in connection with last year's terror attack on a military base in Uri in which 19 soldiers were killed.
The NIA yesterday had handed over Faisal Hussain Awan and Ahsan Khursheed to the army's 16 Corps headquarters in Jammu.
"The individuals will be repatriated through Wagah border on March 10," the army official said.
It was initially suspected that the two youths acted as guides for the Uri attackers.
On September 18 last year, four heavily armed militants stormed the Uri army base camp in Jammu and Kashmir killing 19 soldiers and injuring few others.
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