Roundup: Tension Worsens Along Indian-Pakistani Border Despite Diplomacy Moves

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Roundup: Tension Worsens Along Indian-Pakistani Border Despite Diplomacy Moves

Tensions between India and Pakistan worsened as new fighting broke out along the India-Pakistan border, shortly before the arrival of U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage in Islamabad.

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Tensions between India and Pakistan worsened as new fighting broke out along the India-Pakistan border, shortly before the arrival of U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage in Islamabad.

Sporadic gunfire was reported overnight on Thursday across the line of control in Kashmir, with seven people shot dead, including three Indian soldiers, three militants and one civilian.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said he hoped the visit by Armitage would defuse the prevailing tensions between the two countries.

Musharraf said previously that the tension has not ended but has been reduced, and that forces were massed on the borders. The danger is not over yet and the situation has not been defused, he said.

As a result, tension between the two South Asian countries continues to rise. The British Foreign Office has advised its citizens to leave India and Pakistan, hardening previous advice that Britons should "consider" leaving the countries as tensions mount.

The United States and Japan also announced alterations to the travel advice previously made for their nationals respectively.

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is expected to visit India and Pakistan shortly as part of Washington's efforts to avoid a possible war. He is due to visit on June 14, after observing the results of Armitage's visit in the region.

In a recent effort to defuse South Asian tensions, U.S. President George W. Bush called Indian and Pakistani leaders Wednesday, and urged them to take the "path of diplomacy" and to avoid a military confrontation.

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