SRINAGAR , Indian-controlled Kashmir ( CNN ) -- Senior Pakistani and Indian military officials met Tuesday to discuss a border clash in Kashmir , the first major skirmish between South Asia 's nuclear rivals since a 2003 cease-fire . Indian army soldiers on the outskirts of Kashmir 's summer capital Srinagar . Pakistan 's army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas told CNN that Pakistan `` made our point clear '' regarding the firefight , which he said began after Indian soldiers crossed the Line of Control that separates Kashmir between India and Pakistan . But an Indian military spokeswoman , Capt . Neha Goyal , told CNN Pakistani troops crossed the Line of Control and `` started firing on our patrol , '' killing an Indian soldier . `` Our troops also retaliated and the Pakistan army troopers ran back , '' she said . Abbas said `` further action should be taken '' following Tuesday 's `` flag meeting , '' but did not elaborate . The meeting took place along the Line of Control . Reports in India 's media said four Pakistani soldiers were killed , but Pakistan 's military `` strongly denied the report of any ( casualties ) on the Pakistani side . '' Pakistan 's military also denied its forces crossed the Line of Control , saying the skirmish started when Indian soldiers tried to establish a forward post on Pakistan 's side of the line . `` On Pakistan 's ' objection , Indian troops opened indiscriminate and unprovoked fire , '' a Pakistan military news release , posted on Monday , stated . `` The Indian fire was immediately responded to . The firing continued -- intermittently during the whole night . '' Pakistan said the Indian soldiers `` were forced to flee from the area leaving behind their weapons '' after the firefight . Indian and Pakistani forces have exchanged periodic gunfire since May , but Monday 's clashes appear to be a serious setback to the ongoing peace process between the two nations . India and Pakistan had announced a bilateral cease-fire all along their borders in November 2003 and the cease-fire had been holding on the borders until recently . Kashmir has been at the root of two wars between India and Pakistan , both of which tested nuclear weapons in 1998 . An 18-year separatist campaign in the Indian-controlled portion of the largely Muslim territory has claimed more than 43,000 lives , according to government officials , although human rights groups and nongovernmental organizations put the toll at twice that number . India has long accused Pakistan of supporting the separatists in Kashmir , a charge Pakistan denies . India blamed militants from Pakistan for a suicide car bombing outside its embassy in Afghanistan that killed 58 people on July 7 . A December 2001 attack on India 's parliament that India blamed on the militants brought the two nations to the brink of another war , but they have expanded economic and cultural ties since the November 2003 cease-fire agreement . -- CNN 's Aliza Kassim in Atlanta and Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar contributed to this report .
India : Fighting began after Indian soldiers crossed the Line of Control . Pakistan accused Pakistan of attacking two of its patrols , killing a soldier . Firefight took place across the Line of Control border in disputed South Asia 's region .