Srinagar, India - Pakistani troops fired across the line of control that divides India- and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Indian defence sources said Wednesday.

The incident took place in the Kupwara sector of the line of control, the de-facto border, sources in the Jammu and Kashmir state capital Srinagar said. More details were awaited, they added.

Fierce clashes between Indian and Pakistani troops along the border on Monday and Tuesday left one Indian soldier dead.

The fighting that lasted more than 16 hours stopped Tuesday, and a meeting was held between Indian and Pakistani troops.

Washington, July 30 : A US-based South Asia expert has reportedly said that Washington should question Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani as to why the Taliban, Al Qaeda and other like-minded terrorist groups were asserting more authority in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border areas since the government began pursuing peace deals a few months ago.

Ankara - The bodies of 13 refugees believed to have suffocated to death were found Wednesday morning near a village not far from Istanbul, the Dogan news agency reported.

Washington, July 30: Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has denied reports that he had a role in the ISI, of first putting under the control of Prime Minister and then back under interior minister’s purview, and said that those who would be found guilty for it would be punished.

Malik said that he had absolutely nothing to do with the controversial notification to take over ISI and IB, and that when he returns to Pakistan he would see that some heads roll immediately for this blunder, reported The News.

According to him, the notification was issued by some bureaucrats, including some from ISI, without getting proper approvals from competent authorities and he would see to it that those responsible were held accountable.

Toronto, July 30 : A former Pentagon analyst John McCreary has reportedly said the recent drama of first putting the ISI under the control of Pakistan Prime Minister and then reversing the decision to put it back under Interior Ministry’s purview, had “humiliated the Pakistan prime minister”.

By putting ISI back under interior ministry’s control, President Pervez Musharraf and the armed forces humiliated the prime minister, he said.

Washington