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| India reports shooting on Kashmir frontier |
| 2008-07-30 |
| Pakistani soldiers violated the cease-fire in Kashmir on Wednesday, shooting across the heavily fortified frontier in the Himalayan region for the second time in three days, the Indian army said. The Pakistanis opened fired just before noon but Indian forces did not shoot back, said Lt. Col. Anil Kumar Mathur, the Indian army spokesman in Kashmir. No casualties were reported, he said. Indian and Pakistani soldiers traded gunfire for more than 12 hours between Monday night and Tuesday morning, the worst violation of a 2003 cease-fire agreement between the nuclear-armed neighbors. One Indian soldier and four Pakistanis were killed in that incident. |
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| Six Islamists killed in Kashmir gunbattle |
| 2008-05-17 |
| Security forces killed six suspected Islamic militants in a gunbattle Saturday in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the army said. Indian army spokesman Lt. Col. Anil Kumar Mathur said the clash began after troops and police sealed off a forested area near Lurgam following a tip that militants were hiding there. Lurgam is 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state. Mathur said the rebels belonged to the Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group, which authorities have blamed for a number of bombings and attacks, including an assault on India's Parliament in 2001. With the area still sealed off, there was no independent confirmation of the incident and no immediate comment from the rebel group. |
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