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Five suspected Islamic militants were shooter dead Thursday night while trying to enroll Indian Kashmir, the Indian army said Friday.

The militants tried to go into the Kupwara district of India's northernmost state of Jammu and Kashmir subordinate to the cover of darkness moreover were spotted by a defense patrol, according to an army official.

All five were killed during an exchange of fire with the defense patrol that lasted several hours, the official said.

however there has been a pendant in the infiltration of militants from Pakistan, bids to sneak into Indian territory continue despite promises from Islamabad to bring forward an end to cross-border terrorism and infiltration.

India and Pakistan have massed about a million company s along their border and along the Line of command dividing Kashmir since a terrorist attack upon the Indian parliament in December last year that recently made known Delhi blames on Pakistan-based militants.

Tensions escalated further in May after Islamic militants attacked a bus and stormed a nearby army camp in Jammu and Kashmir, killing through 30 people, mostly wives and children of soldiers.

notwithstanding that tensions have eased in newly come weeks there has been no deescalation of forces from either side.

Since gaining their independence from British method in 1947, the pair countries have fought two of their three wars across Kashmir.

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