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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (1383)	12/31/2001 10:36:44 AM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

INDIA, PAKISTAN EXCHANGE HEAVY MORTAR FIRE December 31, 2001 Agency France-Presse reports: “Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged heavy mortar fire over their border in southern Kashmir, a senior Indian army official said. Brigadier P.C. Das said the heaviest shelling was in the Pallanwalla sector, 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of the Kashmiri winter capital Jammu. Five Indian soldiers were seriously injured. The two sides also exchanged mortar fire in nearby Nowshera sector, where more than 1,000 villagers had to be evacuated from their homes overnight Sunday. ‘This is the heaviest mortar shelling we have seen for four months,’ Das said, claiming that the Pakistani units had fired first. India and Pakistan regularly trade artillery, mortar and small arms fire across their disputed Kashmir border, but the clashes have taken on added significance and danger in the past week amid heightened military tensions between the two rivals…”