{"id":3827,"date":"2016-11-14T13:37:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T13:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=3827"},"modified":"2016-11-14T13:37:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T13:37:58","slug":"7-pakistani-soldiers-killed-in-cross-border-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/11\/14\/7-pakistani-soldiers-killed-in-cross-border-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Pakistani soldiers killed in cross-border fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Pakistani soldiers were killed by Indian shelling across the frontier in the disputed Kashmir region overnight, Pakistan`s military said on Monday, as tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors simmer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan`s military media wing, ISPR, said in a statement the seven soldiers were killed in the Bhimber sector on the &#8220;Line of Control&#8221; de facto border in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Relations between Pakistan and India have been strained for several months, while cross-frontier shelling has intensified in recent weeks leading to deaths of civilians and soldiers stationed along the disputed frontier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tensions have been fraught since July when India-administered Kashmir was rocked by street protests after the killing of a militant leader there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad launched an international campaign to highlight alleged rights abuses by Indian security forces in Kashmir, while New Delhi blamed Pakistan for fanning the unrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Pakistani soldiers were killed by Indian shelling across the frontier in the disputed Kashmir region overnight, Pakistan`s military said on Monday, as tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors simmer. &nbsp; Pakistan`s military media wing, ISPR, said in a statement the seven soldiers were killed in the Bhimber sector on the &ldquo;Line of Control&rdquo; de facto border in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. &nbsp; An Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment. &nbsp; Relations between Pakistan and India have been strained for several months, while cross-frontier shelling has intensified in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3829,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions\/3829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}