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| Subject: Good stuff: India's soldiers whacked in row over Kashmir Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:27 pm | |
| The brittle peace along India and Pakistan's disputed Kashmir border has been violently fractured again with the killing of three soldiers in as many days and allegations the troops' bodies have been mutilated.
The Muslim-majority border region has been contested between India and Pakistan since the two countries came into existence. It has been the cause of three wars, and still fuels a long-running insurgency, but recent years have been more peaceful.
The de facto border is a heavily-armed Line of Control arcing through the Himalayan region manned by tens of thousands of troops.
It is midwinter in Kashmir, almost all of the the line is snowbound and temperatures have been as low as minus 8 degrees on recent nights. But on Sunday, a Pakistani soldier was shot and killed by Indian troops at Haji Pir, about 80 kilometres north of Islamabad.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/soldiers-killed-in-row-over-kashmir-20130109-2cgrq.html#ixzz2HXWCKqNz
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