Indian and Pakistani soldiers briefly exchange fire along the Kashmir border

India and Pakistan exchanged the fire along their highly patrolled and disputed border in the Kashmir region, increasing tensions between the two nuclear arms neighbors just days after a terrorist attack killed 26 people on the Indian side of the disputed region.

The Pakistani soldiers first shot an Indian position and Indian responded in kind, according to local reports, who declared that the exchange was brief and that there were no victims. Indian and Pakistani officials did not immediately respond to requests for comments.

Tensions between the two countries, the archival for decades, quickly won this week after activists killed 26 people, mainly tourists, in a picturesque meadow near Pahalgam, a popular destination in cashmere on Tuesday.

India called for the shooting of a terrorist attack without blaming a specific group, but it took a series of punitive measures against Pakistan, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of India saying that there were “cross -border links”. India announced Wednesday that it would retrograde diplomatic ties and withdraw from a water sharing treaty of several decades which is particularly essential in Pakistan, among other measures.

Pakistan denied ties with the attack, and its Minister of Defense said this week that the country “supports no form of terrorism”. On Thursday, the Pakistani government announced reprisal measures against India, including the closure of its airspace to Indian carriers.

On Friday, his Senate unanimously adopted a resolution condemning what it called “frivolous and baseless” attempts to link the country to the militant attack to the cashmere, rejecting allegation and accusing New Delhi of using “terrorism” as a political tool.