[DAWN] Pak and Indian border security forces agreed on Friday to maintain restraint on their disputed Kashmire frontier, as they sought to defuse tensions that have been heightened in recent months by bully boy attacks that each side blames the other for.The heads of India's Border Security Force and the Pak Rangers met in New Delhi to find ways to de-escalate tensions along the border as part of a series of measures agreed by the leaders of the two countries in July.
The border chiefs agreed to hold back cross-border firing and not to retaliate immediately to violations of a 15-year ceasefire, an Indian interior ministry official said.
"Both have decided not to immediately retaliate against firing from either side and to contact the other side to know the cause of firing," the official said, reading from a draft text the two governments agreed.
Tens of thousands of soldiers are massed on either side of Kashmire, one of the world's most militarised regions, and in recent months they have stepped up cross-border firing.
Last month, nine people were killed by the firings on the day the nuclear-armed neighbours marked the 50th anniversary of a war between them.
India says Pak soldiers provide cover firing to help snuffies cross over and carry out attacks in its part of Kashmire.