2 rebels, 1 soldier killed in gunbattles in Indian Kashmir

India’s official broadcaster – All India Radio (AIR) Friday said Indian troops guarding the LoC retaliated to firing from Pakistan.

She said Pakistan has invited the speakers of the other state assemblies for the nine-day conference but not the Jammu and Kashmir assembly speaker.

Naved’s interrogators said he was changing statements frequently and had given four different accounts of the route he and his accomplices took to infiltrate India.

The fighting was reported at Tangdhar and Trehgam sectors, around 10 km apart, along the Line of Control (LoC), which divides Jammu and Kashmir between India and Pakistan.

The ceasefire violations along the border helps to focus global attention on the tensions between the two countries that stem from their dispute over Kashmir, which both claim in its entirety. We will take every step to get him released, he assured. Sartaj Aziz has now said that Pakistan is preparing its own agenda for the talks and once it is finalised, it will be conveyed to New Delhi.

“The tensions with Pakistan cost us more”, said former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal, adding that hard relations with Pakistan tend to scare off potential investors and stymie economic growth.

India has threatened to boycott the event if J&K Speaker Kavinder Gupta was not invited.

J&K Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Kumar Singh has, however, assured that the state government is fully prepared to deal with any threat from the Pakistan-based terrorists.

Aziz regretted that Pakistan was blamed for all terrorist attacks in India, even before investigations are conducted.

“Pakistan has a point of view, our country has a point of view, our party too has a point of view and then others as well have a point of view”.

India on 7 August 2015 decided to boycott the 61st Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference which is slated to be held in Islamabad, Pakistan from 30 September to 8 October 2015. “Jammu and Kashmir is an inseparable part of India”, he added.

It said that the sham polls for the so-called Kashmir assembly were held in the presence of more than 800,000 Indian troops and it was not in accordance with the worldwide standard.