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| Three Killed in Indian Kashmir 'Militant Attack' |
| 2014-08-14 |
| [An Nahar] Suspected rebels killed two coppers and a civilian Wednesday in an ambush in Indian Kashmire a day after prime minister Narendra Modi visited the disputed region, police said. It's like clockwork: There's an exchange of artillery fire that the Paks always deny initiating. Three or four days later there's a shootout in Kashmir. But, really, the two aren't related. You are getting sleepy. You are getting very sleepy... There is no cause... There is no effect... The attack occurred late in the evening when a police brass hat travelling in his official vehicle along with two other officers was fired up on from both sides of the road in Galander, just outside Srinagar, the region's main city. "The civilian and a policeman gave up the ghost," a police statement said. "The other policeman died in the hospital later," a police officer who declined to be identified, as he was not authorized to speak to media, told Agence La Belle France Presse. He said four to five attackers who had laid the ambush expeditiously departed at a goodly pace and government forces were on a hunt for them. Since 1989 fighting between Indian forces and about a dozen rebel groups seeking independence or a merger of the territory with Pakistain has left tens of thousands, mostly civilians, dead. Kashmire is divided between India and Pakistain by a heavily militarized defacto border known as the Line of Control or LoC since 1947 when the two nations won independence from Britannia. Both administer the divided territory separately but claim it in full. Wednesday's attack followed another in the same area two days earlier when suspected rebels attacked a Border Security Force (BSF) vehicle injuring seven paramilitaries as Modi was preparing to visit the disputed territory. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Of course not. That would hurt their feelings. Then we'd have to endure a dozen op-eds from the Pakistani press about how hurt they are. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-08-14 18:26 |
| #1 A cynic might suggest that artillery was covering fire. But the Paks don't deserve cynicism....right? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-08-14 13:33 |