2014–2015 India–Pakistan border skirmishes

India–Pakistan border skirmishes (2014–2015)
	Part of the Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts and the Kashmir conflict
	; The Map of Line of Control, 2014
Date	6 July 2014 – 2 November 2015; (1 year, 3 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
Location	Line of Control and International Border
Status	Status quo ante bellum
Belligerents
India Indian Army; Border Security Force;	Pakistan Pakistan Army; Pakistan Rangers;
Commanders and leaders
Pranab Mukherjee; Dalbir Singh Suhag; D. S. Hooda; Rajnath Singh; Manohar Parrikar;	Mamnoon Hussain; Raheel Sharif; Qamar Javed Bajwa; Naseer Khan;
Units involved
IA Northern Command; Border Security Force;	X Corps; Pakistan Rangers;
Casualties and losses
7 soldiers and 34 civilians killed according to India; 4 additional soldier deaths and one drone destroyed, according to Pakistan;	7 soldiers and 39–40 civilians killed, according to Pakistan; 12 additional soldier deaths, according to India;

The 2014–2015 India–Pakistan border skirmishes were a series of armed clashes and exchanges of gunfire between the Indian Border Security Force and the Pakistan Rangers: the paramilitary gendarmerie forces of both nations, responsible for patrolling the India-Pakistan border) along the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed Kashmir region and the borders of the Punjab. Tensions began in mid-July 2014, with both countries' military officials and media reports giving different accounts of the incidents and accusing each other of initiating the hostilities. The incident sparked outrage in both countries and harsh reactions by the Indian and Pakistani militaries and the Indian and Pakistani governments.

The situation deteriorated in October of that year, when Indian Defence Minister Arun Jaitley urged Pakistan to stop "unprovoked" firing and warned that the response by India would be "unaffordable". On 12 October 2014, Pakistani national security adviser Sartaj Aziz, sent a letter to the United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon appealing for a resolution of the crisis. Aziz said that officials from the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) were going to the disputed border region to observe ceasefire violations.

In September 2015, a Pakistani delegation headed by the Pakistan Rangers director general Umar Farooq, visited India for bilateral talks; Indian Border Security Force director general Devendra Kumar headed the Indian delegation. Both sides agreed to halt cross-border ceasefire violations. Indian Minister of Home Affairs Rajnath Singh told the Pakistani delegation, "Indian forces will not fire the first bullet along the international border." The Pakistani delegation raised the issue of the killing of a Pakistani Ranger by Indian BSF fire (which resulted in escalation and retaliatory fire), and the Indian BSF director-general pledged that no such incident would occur in the future. Both sides agreed to conduct joint investigations of future ceasefire violations and to strengthen border security; The Indian BSF and Pakistan Rangers agreed to improve communications.

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