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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Tuesday, May 2, 2017
India says two soldiers killed, mutilated by Pakistani troops
India's army accused Pakistani troops of killing two of its soldiers
patroling the de facto border in the disputed Kashmir region on Monday
before mutilating their bodies, and vowed to exact revenge.
Past accusations that Pakistani forces have mutilated dead Indian
soldiers have outraged the Indian public and intensified the dispute
between the two nuclear-armed neighbours over the Himalayan region.
Pakistan's military denied the allegations. It said there had been no
violation of a ceasefire on the Kashmir frontier and that its soldiers
had not mutilated the corpse of any Indian soldier.
The Indian army said Pakistani forces fired rockets and mortar bombs at
two Indian posts on the Line of Control dividing Muslim-majority Kashmir
between the two countries, in the Krishna Ghati sector.
"In a unsoldierly act by the Pak army the bodies of two of our soldiers
in the patrol were mutilated," the Indian army said in an
English-language statement, referring to Pakistani forces.
"Such despicable act of the Pakistan army will be appropriately responded."
Reuters was not able to verify independently the authenticity of the Indian account.
Pakistan's military described its army as a "highly professional force" that shall "never disrespect a soldier, even Indian."
FRAGILE CEASEFIRE
India and Pakistan have faced off for decades across the Line of
Control, an old ceasefire line through the region that both countries
claim in full but rule in part.
Sporadic cross-border attacks in past months have frayed the region's 2003 truce.
In a separate incident, militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir
ambushed a van carrying cash for the state-run Jammu and Kashmir Bank,
killing five policemen and two bank officials, a senior police official
said. It wasn't initially clear if the militants had looted the cash.
The attack occurred in south Kashmir's Kulgam district, where protests against Indian rule have flared in recent weeks.
Both sides have previously accused each of violating the ceasefire and of beheading soldiers in the past.
India's Defence Minister Arun Jaitley, who also holds the finance
portfolio, condemned the latest killings which he called "reprehensible
and barbaric".
Peace talks between the two countries have been on hold for years and diplomatic engagement is at a minimum.
India accuses Pakistan of backing Islamist militants and encouraging
them to attack Indian forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir and,
occasionally, in other parts of India.
Pakistan denies that and says India must hold negotiations on the future of Kashmir.
(Additional reporting by Drazen Jorgic in ISLAMABAD, Writing by Sanjeev Miglani; Editing by Robert Birsel and Richard Lough)