 Indian troops shot dead five armed infiltrators crossing the de facto Kashmir border from Pakistan, the army said on Monday. Soldiers launched an operation Sunday night after the suspected Islamist gunmen were spotted in the mountainous Machil area in the north of Indian-held Kashmir. Five AK-47 rifles, two grenade launchers, 70 grenades, two radio sets and a large quantity of ammunition were recovered from the bodies, an army spokesman said. India's new army chief in Kashmir says the Pakistani army knows that militants are crossing from Pakistani Kashmir to the Indian zone to join an insurgency against New Delhi's rule. "I am quite certain that they (Pakistani troops) are not unaware of this infiltration. But what active support they are giving to the infiltration, it is difficult for me to tell you," Lieutenant General SS Dhillon said last week. |