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India slams Pakistan as 25 die in Kashmir violence
The Kashmir theater is really heating up lately, I wonder what the story is?India accused Pakistan on Thursday of refusing to cooperate in the fight against terrorism in Kashmir as 25 people were killed in the disputed Himalayan region. Thursdayâs deaths follow the violent death of 28 people in Kashmir on Saturday, the highest dayâs toll in two months. "Pakistan continues to assess terrorism as an instrument of leverage in its dealing with India," an Indian foreign ministry statement said in New Delhi. "If Pakistan is to move towards moderation and a progressive society, as General (Pervez) Musharraf claims as his objective, it has to give up using fundamentalism, terrorism and subversion against other countries" India said it had killed at least 16 suspected Muslim guerrillas in a string of gunbattles as they tried to slip into disputed Kashmir from Pakistan. One group of heavily armed intruders were gunned down in the Rajouri area of revolt-torn Jammu and Kashmir state after six hours of fighting that started early on Thursday, a defence official told Reuters. He said the bodies of eight militants and several assault rifles and grenades were recovered from near the heavily militarised Line of Control that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. In other incidents, police said four intruders were killed late on Wednesday in a gunbattle in northern Kupwara district, soldiers shot dead four rebels in fighting near the Kashmir ski resort of Gulmarg, and five civilians, two soldiers and two militants were killed in explosions and shooting elsewhere in the region. Police in Indian Kashmir say more than 171 people, mostly rebels, were killed in separatist violence in the first two weeks of September Posted by: Paul Moloney 2003-09-19 |
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