11.   Fighting has raged on multiple fronts along the disputed Kashmir frontier, said witnesses and residents.

12.   For weeks, India and Pakistan have trading heavy artillery barrages along the disputed frontier as India has tried to dislodge Islamic guerrillas from mountaintops in the Himalayan region.

13.   However, for a second straight day, Indian and Pakistani forces continued to shoot at one another across the disputed Kashmir frontier.

14.   India accuses Pakistan soldiers of taking part in the insurgency near the disputed frontier that divides their forces in Kashmir.

15.   India said both aircraft were on its side of the disputed Kashmir frontier.

16.   Indian and Pakistani troops face each other and routinely fire across the disputed mountainous frontier in the area.

17.   India has been trying since Wednesday to dislodge Pakistan-backed guerrillas from the disputed frontier.

18.   India said Pakistani soldiers entrenched in the cloud-kissed mountains of the disputed frontier region had shot down the helicopter.

19.   Indian and Pakistani soldiers exchange fire along their disputed frontier almost every day.

20.   Indian and Pakistani troops face each other along a disputed frontier that divides Kashmir between the two nations.