But the recent rise in incidents has caused alarm. The subject was taken up by Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Nawaz Sharif in New York last month when they pledged to improve conditions to build trust.
India’s defence ministry says it has compiled more than 200 ceasefire violations this year, more than all the other violations since 2003.
Both sides accuse the other of “unprovoked” firing which leads to retaliatory strikes.
Sharif is currently in Washington and is set to meet President Barack Obama later Wednesday, after angering India by calling for US involvement to help settle the six-decade dispute over Kashmir.
The BSF’s operations chief in New Delhi, Raju Krishna, repeated longstanding Indian suspicions that cross-border firing is aimed at helping Islamist militants from Pakistan infiltrate into Kashmir.
“We are giving a befitting reply to prevent the infiltration bid,” Krishna told AFP.
The Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir is divided and administered separately by India and Pakistan but claimed in full by both.
It has triggered two of their three wars since independence from Britain in 1947.
Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid last week described the military flare-up as a “serious matter”.
