| Fourteen Indian soldiers and three civilians were wounded in disputed Kashmir Sunday when suspected Muslim militants set off a bomb in a market as a military patrol passed by, police said. The attack in Qazigund, 44 miles south of Srinagar, came a day ahead of first formal talks between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan in Islamabad in nearly three years. Militant violence has continued unabated in Kashmir despite peace moves between the two neighbors. The rebel group Hizbul-Mujahideen, which is fighting for Kashmir to be merged into Pakistan, said it was responsible for the attack. Militants detonated a crude bomb they had put in a hand-cart, a police spokesman said. |