Violating the ceasefire again, Pakistani troops targeted forward Indian posts along the Line of Control with rockets, mortars and resorted to heavy firing in Poonch district in the wee hours of morning today.

Pakistan troops attacked the Indian forward posts in Krishnagati sub-sector of the district around 1am, brigadier general staff, 16 Corps, Brig S Dua said.

Dozens of mortars and rockets were fired, which exploded away from the posts without causing any damage, he said, terming it as an “unprovoked act”.

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A senior leader of India’s Maoist rebels has said that the government will have to declare a “simultaneous” ceasefire in order to enable talks between the two sides.

Koteswara Rao said this was the government’s last “chance for peace”.

India has asked the rebels in the past to unilaterally declare a 72-hour ceasefire to enable talks.

PM Manmohan Singh has described the Maoist insurgency as India’s biggest internal security challenge.

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After some days of calm, violence is renew exploded in indian Kashmir and in clashes with police 4 people have been killed.

These new incidents are happened in Pattan, Kupwara and Sopore have grown up balance of separatist protests in this State that is arrived at 56 death since June 11.

In consideration of prayer of Friday, local autorities have decided to suspend curfew, but has pushed thousands of people to get down in square.

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00:06 – Heavy artillery shelling from the Georgian villages of Nikozi and Ergneti, as well as from the Georgian city of Gori, targeted at the capital city of the Republic of South Ossetia, Tskhinval, has begun. Ossetian villages of Dmenis, Sarabuk, Satikar, Tsunar, Khetagurovo, Velit, Mugut, Didmukha, Znaur, Galuanta and others are also under heavy shelling.

00:42 – Georgia has officially announced the war. The Commander of the Georgian peacekeepers Mamuka Kurashvili officially informs the Commander of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces (JPKF) in the conflict zone, Major-General Marat Kulakhmetov, that Georgia is starting its military operation in the zone of Georgian-Osseitan conflict to restore constitutional order in South Ossetia. He calls on the Russian peacekeepers deployed in the conflict zone not to interfere into the situation.

01:00 – Howitzer and large-caliber mortar fire opened at the villages of Dmenis, Znaur and Khetagurovo.

01:38 – Assault at Tskhinval is taking place in all directions. The Georgian side is shelling Tskhinval from GRAD artillery systems, howitzer and large-caliber mortars.

02:00 – Tskhinval volunteer fighters are defending the city, taking the positions in the northern, southern and western parts of the city.

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Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov, who claimed the Moscow Metro bombings earlier this year which killed 40 people, is said to be resigning.

In a video released online a man appearing to be Mr Umarov, 46, says he is handing over to a younger comrade.

The speaker says a man seated next to him, named as Aslambek Vadalov, can lead “more energetically”.

Doku Umarov is one of the few rebel leaders to survive from Chechnya’s spell of independence from Russia.

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