"This attack in Jammu is aimed at derailing the dialogue process," said Omar Abdullah, chief minister of the Indian administered Kashmire.
The group of gunnies who attacked a cop shoppe and army camp in India administered Kashmire on Thursday had crossed the border from Pakistain the previous day, the state's chief minister said.
Omar Abdullah told news hounds that the raid appeared designed to upset plans for a meeting in New York this week between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pak Prime Minister
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"Given the history, timing and location, the aim is to derail the proposed meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pak counterpart," Abdullah said. "There are forces that are inimical to peace and want to derail any grinding of the peace processor."
The myrmidons, all wearing army fatigues, lobbed grenades and shot up the Hiranagar cop shoppe near the border with Pakistain, police said.
Around the same time attackers struck at an army base in the nearby Samba district in the southern-most part of the the Indian-administered state where a fierce gunbattle with soldiers took place and Indian tanks were deployed.
The attacks are set to overshadow a meeting by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pak counterpart Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly this weekend, the first top-level dialogue in three years.
Manmohan Singh condemned "the heinous terrorist attack" in a statement but said that that it "will not deter us and will not succeed in derailing our efforts to find a resolution to all problems through a process of dialogue".