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India accuses Pakistan at border | India accuses Pakistan at border |
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India says it is to protest to Pakistan after two of its border guards were injured in a shooting incident near the international border in Kashmir. | |
Indian security officials said their patrols were shot at from across the border, possibly by Pakistani troops. | |
Pakistan angrily denied its soldiers had breached a ceasefire, saying Indian troops opened fire first. | |
The truce came into force in 2003 ahead of peace moves. The rivals have fought three wars, two of them over Kashmir. | |
'Ludicrous' | |
An Indian border security official said gunfire came first from the Pakistani side, although he said it was not clear whether the shots were fired by soldiers or militants. | |
Indian officials say Islamic militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir continue to sneak across from the Pakistani side of the divided region, despite the three-year-old ceasefire. Pakistan denies this. | |
India said its troops returned fire in the incident, but two of its soldiers were wounded in the exchange. | |
A Pakistan army statement called the allegations "fabricated and ludicrous". It said Pakistani border guards did not return fire. | |
Since the 2003 ceasefire, India and Pakistan have been holding regular peace talks. | Since the 2003 ceasefire, India and Pakistan have been holding regular peace talks. |
But they have made little progress over the Kashmir dispute. | But they have made little progress over the Kashmir dispute. |
The two countries have accused each other of violating the ceasefire on a couple of occasions since it came into force, but the peace process has been unaffected. | |
The BBC's Barbara Plett in Islamabad says many diplomats and analysts there believe that President Pervez Musharraf has taken significant steps to stop the jihadis. | |
But they say it is difficult for him to completely dismantle the militant infrastructure without a resolution of the Kashmir dispute. |
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