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		</div><p>This is a question that has long been purely rhetorical. After all, both nations have recently lived in relative peace along the border for over a decade.</p>
<p>Yet today the question seems less absurd, and more urgent.<br />
Indian military officials have announced that they launched what it calls a “surgical strike” across the Line of Control – the highly militarised frontier that divides the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan.</p>
<p>Tensions, which are always simmering between two countries, increased after an attack earlier this month on an Indian military base in Kashmir.</p>
<p>India accused Pakistan of sending militants belonging to the outlawed Jaish-e-Mohammed group, headquartered in Pakistan, to carry out the attack. Pakistan denied the charge.</p>
<p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/image-2.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/image-2.jpg" alt="image" width="600" height="391" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-97554" /></a></p>
<p>At the time, the director-general of military operations for the Indian Army announced that the “terrorists” responsible for the attack carried gear which had “Pakistani markings”.</p>
<p>However, Pakistan denies that the site of the attack was a terrorist base, pointing out that two of its soldiers had also been killed.</p>
<p>Tensions mounted as members of Indian extremist group Maharastra Navnirman Sena demanded that Pakistani actors and artists currently working in India return back to Pakistan within a 48-hour deadline.</p>
<p>Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, has been under intense pressure from his own party and the Indian public to respond to the attack on the military base.</p>
<p>Indian officials gave few details about the strikes across the disputed border on Wednesday night.</p>
<p>“Significant casualties were caused to the terrorists and those who support them,” Lt Gen Ranbir Singh, director general of military operations for the Indian Army, told reporters in New Delhi.</p>
<p>Singh said the operations were over and India has no plans for more strikes. He said he shared details of the strikes with his Pakistani counterpart.</p>
<p>Indian soldiers travelling on foot crossed the Line of Control into the Pakistani-controlled portion to attack several targets based on intelligence about imminent attacks, said a high-ranking Indian official.</p>
<p>He said the Indian forces killed at least 10 people before retreating back into Indian-controlled territory. The Indian soldiers suffered no losses, he said.</p>
<p>The Pakistani military flatly denied any “surgical strikes” had occurred.</p>
<p>“There has been no surgical strike by India, instead there had been cross-border fire initiated and conducted by India,” a Pakistani military statement said.</p>
<p>Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Asif said two of their soldiers were killed and nine others were wounded in the exchanges at five different places along the disputed border.</p>
<p>Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the “unprovoked and naked aggression of Indian forces”.</p>
<p>Kashmir is claimed in its entirety by both India and Pakistan, but controlled in part by each.</p>
<p>Although the situation remains unstable, civilians on both side of the border took to Twitter to express their hopes for peaceful settlement.</p>
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