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Kashmir: India & Pakistan -Women
& Children on the Frontlines of Protracted Conflict |
October
15, 2014 - At least nine Pakistani and eight Indian civilians have been killed
by cross-border shelling in Kashmir during the past week, in some of the
heaviest fighting between the two countries in a decade. Thousands of people on
both sides have fled their homes. India and Pakistan have fought three wars
over the Muslim-majority territory since the end of British colonial rule on
the subcontinent in 1947.
Indian villagers flee on a tractor trailer from areas
allegedly shelled by
A Pakistani woman is seen through the hole in her roof,
which was allegedly punctured by Indian shells, in the border