1. Rival militant groups which had co-operated with the Indian forces were effectively relegated to politics in exile. 2. After staging ambushes and attacks on Indian forces for nearly three months, the article said, Amrikeeas was killed during an attack on an Indian base near Jammu. 3. But while insisting that Indian forces will not withdraw from the Kargil sector of Kashmir, they also said Indian soldiers would not fire on retreating soldiers. 4. Cohen forecast resumption of U.S. arms sales to Pakistan later this year, if U.S. authorities win a mutual pullback of Pakistani and Indian forces from their border. 5. For several months, Lashkar and other militant groups have threatened to expand their attacks against Indian forces into parts of the country other than Kashmir. 6. Human rights monitors say Indian forces have committed gross human rights violations in battling the insurgency, which Musharraf never fails to describe as an indigenous freedom struggle. 7. Indian forces are more fluid and may take cover from enemy rifle fire easier than U.S. forces. 8. Indian forces were said to have left empty trucks to serve as shelters where floods closed the highway. 9. Indian forces have been bombarding hostile positions in the forbidding mountains, both from the air and with artillery. 10. International rights groups have documented widespread vigilante killings, rapes and other violations by Indian forces, but involving far fewer victims than Pakistanis describe. |
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