A military trailer transports equipment to a forward post in Kanachak
near Akhnoor sector 20 km (12 miles) west of Jammu, the winter capital
of Kashmir, January 2, 2002. Indian and Pakistani troops traded mortar
and heavy machinegun fire across the frontier in the disputed Himalayan
region of Kashmir overnight as the fate of top-level talks to avert war
remained uncertain. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw

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