Gun fight in India-administered Kashmir leaves seven dead even as armies of Pakistan and India continue shelling each other on de facto border
Indian and Pakistan fighter jets staged tit-for-tat raids as they wrangled over responsibility for the February suicide attack.
Pakistan's promise to release an Indian pilot shot down in the aerial dogfight this week eased the threat of a wider conflict between the neighbours."There is a very high risk of escalation towards localised, but more intense direct Indian-Pakistani military confrontation in Kashmir," Jane's Intelligence service said in a study this week.
At least one person was killed by mortar fire that has intensified in a worrying sign that Kashmir faces prolonged fallout from new hostilities between India and Pakistan.One woman was killed and an Indian soldier wounded during shelling late Thursday and early Friday at the southern end of the unofficial frontier, according to police.
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