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| Kashmir Korpse Kount |
| 2014-11-28 |
| [AnNahar] Militants attacked an army patrol in Indian Kashmire on Thursday, leaving one soldier and three civilians dead as fighting continued near the border with rival Pakistain, security officials said. The attack coincides with a regional summit in Nepal attended by the leaders of India and Pakistain, which threatens to end in failure because of rising tensions between the arch-rivals. The group of heavily armed forces of Evil attacked the army column near a base in the town of Arnia in Indian Kashmire, about four kilometres (2.5 miles) from the undisputed, internationally-recognised border with Pakistain. "A soldier died in the initial attack and another was injured," said an army officer on condition of anonymity, although police put the number of injured soldiers at two. Three non-combatants were killed in crossfire and three forces of Evil rubbed out in the attack which occurred early in the morning, local deputy inspector general of police Shakeel Beig said. "So far three local civilians and three forces of Evil have died," Beig told Agence La Belle France Presse. The rebels, suspected to have crossed from Pakistain, entered an "abandoned bunker" which Indian forces then surrounded, triggering the ongoing shootout. "They are a group of four to six forces of Evil now firing from inside the bunker," Beig said. The attack comes with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pak counterpart Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... unlikely to hold a formal meeting at the summit in Kathmandu, in signs of growing mutual distrust. Nuclear-armed India and Pakistain have fought two of their three wars since independence from Britannia over Kashmire. The picturesque region is held in part by Pakistain and India, but claimed in full by both. Analysts say India has taken a more assertive stance against its neighbour since Modi's Hindu nationalist party stormed to power in May. The attack comes a day before Modi is expected to address a campaign rally in the nearby town of Udhampur for ongoing elections in the Himalayan region. Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is striving to win power in the Moslem-majority region for the first time. The region's chief minister, Omar Abdullah, expressed his condolences over the soldier's death, while pointing to the timing of the attack. "The timing of the attack in Arnia can't be a coincidence. My condolences to the family of the army officer killed in Arnia," Abdullah said on Twitter. In October the area was the site of some of the heaviest exchanges of mortar firing between Indian and Pak forces in years, when 20 non-combatants were killed and dozens injured on both sides. Since 1989 fighting between about a dozen rebel groups, seeking independence or a merger of the territory with Pakistain, and Indian forces has left tens of thousands dead, most of them civilians. |
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