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       SRINAGAR: An Indian soldier was killed in a clash in occupied Kashmir’s Sunderbani district, along the Line of Control, on Friday night.

       A spokesperson for the Indian army said on X troops “challenged Kashmiri fighters” near a military base, sparking retaliatory gunfire in which one soldier died.

       Three Kashmiri fighters ected rebels and a soldier were killed in separate firefights near Indian-administered Kashmir’s unofficial frontier with Pakistan, the Indian army said on Saturday.

       The army said soldiers killed three fighters in a clash that began on Wednesday in a remote forest in Kishtwar, in the south of the India-occupied territory.

       Weapons and “war-like stores” were recovered from the site, the army claimed on X.

       India has an estimated 500,000 soldiers permanently deployed in occupied Kashmir.

       Four policemen were killed last month in a clash that also wounded several police officers.

       Thousands of additional Indian troops, including special forces, were deployed across southern mountainous areas of the India-held state last year following a series of deadly attacks that killed more than 50 soldiers over three years.

       Published in Dawn, April 13th, 2025