ISLAMABAD, Jan 13: Pakistani and Indian military officials are due to meet on Monday at the Line of Control after soldiers from both sides were killed in the disputed region, officials said on Sunday.

“A brigade level flag meeting is likely to be held at LoC tomorrow between Pakistan and Indian military authorities,” a senior Pakistani military official told AFP.

The United States has urged the two countries to cool tensions along the heavily militarised LoC.

“Yes the two sides will be meeting on Monday. This is a local commander meet,” Colonel Rajesh Kalia, a spokesman for Indian Army’s Northern Command, told Reuters by phone.

Another Indian army spokesman, Col Jagdeep Dahiya, said in New Delhi that the meeting would take place in Mendhar, the scene of one of the recent attacks, at 1pm (0730 GMT).

Last Sunday, a Pakistani soldier was killed in a cross-LoC raid mounted by the Indians.

The Indian army denied any of its troops breached the control line, but said there had been an exchange of fire.

Two days later, further south along the LoC in the Mendhar district, two Indian soldiers were reportedly killed in a thick forest after what Indian officials alleged was a deep incursion into their side of the LoC by Pakistani forces.

On Thursday, hostilities erupted again in another part of the LoC, and this time Pakistan said one of its soldiers was killed.—AFP/Reuters