Tensions between India, Pakistan continue
Javed Rana
Press TV, Islamabad
This is the de facto border between Pakistan and India. Heavy exchange of intermittent fire has begun between forces of two nuclear armed nations - for the first time since India revoked its special constitutional status. Islamabad says five Indian and three Pakistani soldiers were killed. New Delhi, however, denied fatalities of its soldiers.
Pakistan’s military accused India of deliberating escalating border tension to divert international attention from atrocities being committed against civilians in the Indian disputed part of Kashmir.
The disputed territory has been under curfew, with all communication links like internet and phone services suspended since early last week when New Delhi scrapped the special status of Jammu and Kashmir by lifting the ban on Indian citizens to purchase properties. The Security Council adopted resolutions in 1948 and 1950, calling for a referendum to determine the future of the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir.
Indian security forces are said to have taken away revenue record of the disputed territory to New Delhi where authorities would manipulate and alter old record to provide ownership to fresh migrating Hindu population.
In Pakistan, there is no letup to the protests against India, with demonstrators voicing solidarity with the Kashmiri people.
India and Pakistan trade barbs over Kashmir as tensions continue. Islamabad says the time has come to teach New Delhi a lesson. India accuses its neighbor of helping militants to infiltrate the disputed Kashmir region.
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