India says they came from Pakistan, crossing the temporary border known as the line of control.
Pakistan accuses India of unprovoked shelling that is killing civilians across the line of control.
Where they reached is still, more or less, the territory's line of control (see map).
If not, peace may depend on politicians crossing the line of control separating them from the generals.
An Indian officer said Indian soldiers have spotted Pakistani troop movements along the Line of Control in Kashmir.
Bikram Singh said cross-firing between Indian and Pakistani soldiers at the line of control was a normal activity.
Similarly, India refused to open up the line of control to allow separated Kashmiri families to visit each other.
Both countries still have troops massed along their international border and on the Line of Control in divided Kashmir.
Earlier this year Chinese soldiers crossed the presumed line of control in the west and sent a herder family packing.
Mr. SULIMAN: (Through Translator) I am ready to pay any price to meet my relatives across the line of control.
The Line of Control divides the disputed region between the area controlled by India and the area administered by Pakistan.
Pakistan claims as well that India is occupying territory at two points on its side of the line of control.
And so it may have been with the decision to cross the line of control, the de facto border, in Kashmir.
The two armies have agreed to "de-escalate" tensions along the Line of Control (LoC) after a meeting of their chiefs of operations.
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It wants the Line of Control to be a permanent international border.
It insists that the line of control is vague and that India is also occupying territory on the wrong side of the line.
Hope has flickered that the quake might advance India's peace process with Pakistan, by bringing about a softening of the line of control.
Damara had marked the line of control drawn by regional forces in January, following an accord signed in Libreville, the capital of neighboring Gabon.
Two Indian and two Pakistani soldiers have been killed in the last week in clashes near the Line of Control dividing the disputed region.
India refuses to talk to Pakistan since its forces seized and briefly held territory on India's side of the line of control last year.
Clashes between the soldiers on the Line of Control aren't unusual.
Hussein says it all could have been much easier if the two governments had allowed aid to cross through the line of control from nearby India.
Indian security forces shot dead 12 militants in the Saujian area of Poonch district, near the Line of Control which divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
India is trying to confine its counter-offensive to its side of the line of control, hoping to deny Pakistan any pretext for escalation (see article).
Instead, the delegations agreed to allow separated Kashmiri relatives and humanitarian assistance to begin to cross through several points in the line of control, starting on November 7th.
To clear out all the guerrillas would be even more costly in human lives and probably not possible without crossing the line of control to cut off their supplies.
The reports say Indian commanders breached a ceasefire accord by ordering new observation posts on the Line of Control after a 70-year-old woman crossed it unhindered last year.
Since last year, Pakistan has been in a diplomatic doghouse for trying to conquer territory on India's side of the line of control and risking a wider conflict.
Five soldiers - three Pakistani and two Indian - were killed in last month's hostile exchanges between troops stationed along the Line of Control, which divides the disputed region.
The latest row is over the Kishanganga river (called the Neelum in Pakistan) as each country races to build a hydropower dam either side of Kashmir's line of control.
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