INDIA: KASHMIR: HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRE TRADED WITH PAKISTAN
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(25 Jun 1999) English/Nat
(25 Jun 1999) English/Nat
India and Pakistan have been trading heavy artillery fire across the disputed Kashmir border.
As India intensifies efforts to drive Pakistan-backed rebels from its territory, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Friday declared that his nation would win if the current conflict escalated into a full-scale war.
The two countries have fought three wars during the last five decades, two of them over Kashmir.
The Indian Army's Bofors guns boomed out a message to Pakistan on Friday - India's not afraid of using all the force at its disposal to drive Pakistan-backed rebels out of its territory.
And on Friday, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee drove the message home, declaring that it came to full-scale war with Pakistan, India would win.
But it's not going all India's way.
On the battle front, officers said 14 Indian infantrymen were injured when an artillery shell slammed into their position high on a mountain near Dras, 25 miles south west of the abandoned front-line town of Kargil.
Farther to the south west, along the only road across Himalayan Kashmir, an Indian army camp by a river was hit by 15 shells within five minutes.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars during the last five decades, two of them over disputed Kashmir.
Many fear the fighting could swell into another fight between the two nuclear powers - especially if India launches an attack on the rebels' supply lines on the Pakistan side of the 1972 cease-fire line that has bisected Kashmir since the end of the last war between the two nations.
On Friday, an Indian Army spokesman denied India was planning any such action.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"At the moment we feel no need to cross the L-O-C (Line of Control). Operations that we are conducting at the moment are good enough from the areas where we are and we are quite satisfied with our present positions so I don't think that at this particular point in time, at least we don't feel any such requirement."
SUPER CAPTION: Colonel AS Chabbewal, Indian Army Spokesman
India accuses Pakistan of sending soldiers and Afghan mercenaries into Indian territory.
Pakistan maintains the fighters are Muslim rebels fighting for independence from Hindu majority India.
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India and Pakistan have been trading heavy artillery fire across the disputed Kashmir border.
As India intensifies efforts to drive Pakistan-backed rebels from its territory, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Friday declared that his nation would win if the current conflict escalated into a full-scale war.
The two countries have fought three wars during the last five decades, two of them over Kashmir.
The Indian Army's Bofors guns boomed out a message to Pakistan on Friday - India's not afraid of using all the force at its disposal to drive Pakistan-backed rebels out of its territory.
And on Friday, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee drove the message home, declaring that it came to full-scale war with Pakistan, India would win.
But it's not going all India's way.
On the battle front, officers said 14 Indian infantrymen were injured when an artillery shell slammed into their position high on a mountain near Dras, 25 miles south west of the abandoned front-line town of Kargil.
Farther to the south west, along the only road across Himalayan Kashmir, an Indian army camp by a river was hit by 15 shells within five minutes.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars during the last five decades, two of them over disputed Kashmir.
Many fear the fighting could swell into another fight between the two nuclear powers - especially if India launches an attack on the rebels' supply lines on the Pakistan side of the 1972 cease-fire line that has bisected Kashmir since the end of the last war between the two nations.
On Friday, an Indian Army spokesman denied India was planning any such action.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"At the moment we feel no need to cross the L-O-C (Line of Control). Operations that we are conducting at the moment are good enough from the areas where we are and we are quite satisfied with our present positions so I don't think that at this particular point in time, at least we don't feel any such requirement."
SUPER CAPTION: Colonel AS Chabbewal, Indian Army Spokesman
India accuses Pakistan of sending soldiers and Afghan mercenaries into Indian territory.
Pakistan maintains the fighters are Muslim rebels fighting for independence from Hindu majority India.
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