BBC: Viewpoint: India and Pakistan up the ante on disputed border
The fragile peace along the de facto border dividing India and Pakistan in Kashmir is crumbling.
The Line of Control (LoC) is an un-demarcated 776km (482 mile) stretch of frontier that snakes across the mountains of the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
About 200,000 Indian and Pakistani soldiers face each other here, with rifles, machine guns, mortars and artillery at the ready. It is the most intensively manned and militarised border in the world.
Skirmishes between soldiers and artillery duels were a regular feature of the LoC until it fell silent in 2003, when former Indian prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and former president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf agreed to an unwritten peace.
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Update: Nose to Nose: Ceasefire Between India and Pakistan on Verge of Unraveling (Sputnik)
WNU Editor: Border skirmishes are now a daily occurrence. It will not take much for these skirmishes to explode into an all-out conflict.
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