Analysts criticised India’s decision to open just one crossing on Monday on its de facto border with Pakistan in disputed Kashmir, instead of five announced earlier, saying the process is too slow to help millions of earthquake survivors before winter sets in.
Five people including a suicide bomber were killed and more than a dozen wounded on Wednesday in a car bomb blast that Islamic militants said was a "gift" to Indian Kashmir’s incoming chief minister. Police said the explosion took place in the Nowgam area on the outskirts of the summer capital Srinagar.
At least six people have been killed and 25 injured in a powerful blast that went off as an Indian army convoy drove through a fruit market in Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar.
Kashmiris on Monday waited impatiently for a speech by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in which he is expected to announce steps aimed at reducing tensions with India.
