Skirmishes Keep Tensions Simmering Between India and Pakistan
Pakistanis burn an effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an anti-Indian protest in Karachi on March. 2.
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Tensions continued to simmer between India and Pakistan following their most serious military clashes in decades as cross-border shots and an operation to root out terror suspects killed at least seven security personnel on both sides.
Five Indian personnel were killed in a gunfight with militants in Kashmir, close to the disputed Line of Control with Pakistan, the Times of India reported without saying where it got the information. The government is bringing in a unit of commandos to end a gun battle that’s gone on for three days in the town of Babagund, on India’s side of the Line of Control, it said.