Eight Muslim rebels and two soldiers were killed in clashes over the past 24 hours in disputed Kashmir, where India and Pakistan began a truce last month along a military control line, police said on Saturday.- A police spokesman told Reuters army soldiers
banged shot dead two militants on Saturday in a fierce battle in Anantnag district south of Srinagar.
- Elsewhere, six
hard boyz militants and two good guys security force personnel were killed in separate gunbattles across the region since Friday evening, police said.
- The army ceasefire on the frontline has held so far, but rebel groups have said they will not observe the truce aimed at building on improved relations between nuclear-armed foes India and Pakistan.
Meanwhile, news agency Press Trust of India reported that commandants of the border guards of the two countries met at the India-Pakistan border at Wagah, the first interaction at such a level after two years, a further sign of improving relations. The two sides discussed coordination on routine affairs, the agency said. Monthly interactions at the commandant-level were suspended after the two South Asian neighbours came to the brink of war in 2002 after the Indian parliament was attacked by suspected Islamic militants. |