On the Edge of War: Militants Target Indian Base In Kashmir

BELGRADE - India says militants have attacked one of its army camps in Kashmir with gunfire and grenades, killing one border guard and wounding another.

Police said the gunbattle between the attackers and Indian troops from the camp in the garrison town of Baramulla ended early on October 3, RFE/RL reports.

The camp is the local headquarters of a counterinsurgency military unit.

The assault came three days after the Indian army said it had carried out a "surgical strike" in the region and destroyed "terrorist launching pads" used by militants with support from Pakistan, but Islamabad disputed this.

Relations between the two neighbors have deteriorated since militants entered an army base in Indian-administered Kashmir on September 18 and killed 18 soldiers.

Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since the end of British rule in 1947. Both...