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Pakistan alleges India carried out air attacks

Pakistan on Friday accused India of carrying out air raids on one of its military posts in Gultari sector, even as its troops launched unprovoked heavy artillery shelling on Indian positions across the Line of Control in Drass sector.

"There are no casualties on our side," a defence ministry spokesman said, while dismissing the Pakistani allegation as 'baseless'.

A Pakistani army statement issued in Islamabad alleged that India sent warplanes to bomb the military post after Indian forces were trapped in the area.

The statement claimed despite 'desperate efforts', Indian forces have been pinned down, unable to move or extricate casualties.

"Pakistani troops successfully defended the post causing heavy casualties to the enemy," the statement said.

The Indian defence spokesman said that its armed forces had not crossed the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir nor had they attacked any military posts there.

He said the allegations were apparently an effort to spread 'disinformation and malicious propaganda' to malign India internationally.

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