India-Pakistan gunfire triggers terror of past conflict

India's army said May 4 that its troops had exchanged gunfire with Pakistani soldiers overnight across the Line of Control in multiple sites, which it says has taken place every night since April 24.

An Indian security force personnel stands guard on a street, following an attack on tourists near Pahalgam in south Kashmir, in Srinagar, April 29, 2025. / REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

For 10 nights straight, gunfire between Indian and Pakistani soldiers has echoed from the mountains and deep valleys that form the heavily defended de facto border between the nuclear-armed rivals.

And, each night, it brings back afresh the horror for 50-year-old maize farmer Bashir Dar -- the last time the bitter enemies battled across the Line of Control in contested Kashmir, his wife was killed.

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