A Lashkar statement faxed to Reuters in Islamabad said 19 personnel of the Indian reserve police were killed in the biggest strike against security forces in Kashmir since India announced a unilateral ceasefire there in late November. Only special operations squads of police involved in repression and martyring innocent Kashmiris will be targeted. May. Most militant groups say the ceasefire is a ploy to gain international sympathy and vow to fight on. India accuses Pakistan, which controls more than a third of Kashmir, of arming and training Muslim separatists operating in Indian Kashmir, a charge that Islamabad denies.
China holds the rest of the territory.
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