JAMMU, June 30 (1998): Eleven Pakistanis were killed in continuing exchanges of fire between Indian and Pakistani troops on the disputed Kashmir border, police said on Tuesday. An army spokesman said Pakistani soldiers "resorted to heavy firing" on Indian villages in the southwest region of Jammu's Akhnoor sector. "We retaliated and at least 11 Pakistanis were killed and several others injured. The firefight is still on," he said. The latest border clashes began on June 23 when three Indian soldiers were killed,...

JAMMU, June 29 (1998): Four people were killed on Monday when Pakistani troops opened fire from across the tense border in Kargil in India's Jammu and Kashmir state, police said. The victims were civilians, police said. The Himalayan town of Kargil lies close to the border, some 205 km (130 miles) from Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir. "The firing was unprovoked. All four people killed are civilians," a police officer said. No other details were immediately available from the remote Himalayan town...

ISLAMABAD, June 28 (1998): Eight civlians were killed when Indian troops fired on border villages in Pakistan-administered Kashmir Sunday raising the toll in six days of shelling to 18, official sources said. The "unprovoked and indiscriminate firing" lasting four hours shelled villages in Pandu and Chakoti along the line of control dividing the Pakistani and Indian held zones of disputed Kashmir state, they said. Using medium artillery, guided missiles and mortars besides automatic and small arms, the Indians...

SRINAGAR, June 28 (1998): Two boys were killed as Indian and Pakistani troops shelled each other on their disputed Kashmir border for the sixth day Sunday, military officials said. Five others, including an Indian soldier, were injured and 14 houses damaged in the clashes, the officials said in this summer capital of Kashmir state. The two boys who died on Sunday had received splinter injuries late Saturday when Pakistani troops shelled a forest area in Gurez border region, a military spokesman said. The boys had been...

SRINAGAR, June 25 (1998):Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged heavy fire along the disputed Kashmir border for the third day running, military officials said Thursday. Pakistani troops shelled Indian forward positions in Keran and Gurez sectors in Kashmir "without any provocation," the officials said in Srinagar, the state's summer capital. Indian troops returned the fire. "Both sides were locked in heavy fire," one official said, adding there was no report of casualties on either side. The United News of India,...

SRINAGAR, June 24 (1998): Three Indian soldiers were killed in "unprovoked firing" by Pakistani troops on the Kashmir border, military officials said Wednesday. The Pakistani attack took place Tuesday at Kupwara and followed a tour of the border area by Indian Defence Minister Georger Fernandes, the Press Trust of India (PTI) and United News of India (UNI) reported. Both agencies quoted military officials as saying in Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, that Indian troops retaliated. UNI said the firing lasted...

JAMMU, June 30 (1998): Eleven Pakistanis were killed in continuing exchanges of fire between Indian and Pakistani troops on the disputed Kashmir border, police said on Tuesday. An army spokesman said Pakistani soldiers "resorted to heavy firing" on Indian villages in the southwest region of Jammu's Akhnoor sector. "We retaliated and at least 11 Pakistanis were killed and several others injured. The firefight is still on," he said. The latest border clashes began on June 23 when three Indian soldiers were killed,...

JAMMU, June 23 (1998):A bomb exploded on a railway track in the strife-torn Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, derailing seven carriages of a passing train and injuring at least eight people, police said. They said the blast hit the Delhi-bound Shalimar Express at Ria near Vijaipur, about 33 km (20 miles) southwest of the state's winter capital Jammu. "Because of the low speed of the train, the impact of the explosion was not that powerful. Had it (train) been in its full speed, the casualty would have been...

SRINAGAR, June 21 (1998):At least five pro-government militants were killed on Sunday when suspected separatist guerrillas detonated a landmine in India's restive state of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. "A mine planted by militants on Sumbal road went off when a Gypsy carrying eight Ikhwan activists passed that way. Five out of eight died on the spot and the remaining three sustained serious injuries," a police spokesman said. Sumbal township lies 32 km (20 miles) north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and...

SRINAGAR, June 21 (1998): Ten Moslem militants and an Indian soldier were killed Sunday in the Himalayan state of Kashmir, police said. Five renegade militants were killed when their vehicle was blasted by a land mine at Hussan Khai village, 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Srinagar, an official spokesman said. Moslem separatist guerrillas detonated the mine with remote control, he added. Three former militants were also injured in the explosion. One of the dead was a nephew of Kuka Parrey, a well-known former...