11.   India said that the intruders were Pakistani soldiers, while Pakistan insisted that they were Islamic warriors engaged in a holy war.

12.   Indian officials said, as they have every day for weeks, that it was not primarily Islamic militants but Pakistani soldiers who have occupied Indian territory.

13.   Indian officers say they would never target civilians, and blame Pakistani soldiers and militants for killing their own civilians to sway Kashmiri opinion against peace talks.

14.   It was then that India discovered Pakistani soldiers dug into craggy peaks in the Kargil sector of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

15.   Like the Pakistani soldiers, he denies any links between Pakistan and terrorists, and says he does not even believe that they exist.

16.   Officials said the Pakistani soldiers had been taken by surprise, after a drawn-out negotiation with local tribesmen to turn over the suspected terrorists.

17.   On the same stretch a few weeks ago, the lead armored car stopped to retrieve a wounded Pakistani soldier, stalling the convoy within easy mortar range.

18.   One Pakistani soldier was wounded in the fighting, the army officials said.

19.   One report said dozens of Pakistani soldiers with the Taliban had been killed at a school in Mazar-e-Sharif.

20.   Pakistani soldiers surrounded a pair of buildings where the fighters were staying Tuesday night and began negotiations to secure their surrender.