By Fayaz Bukhari, Asif Shahzad and Tariq Maqbool CHURANDA, India/CHAKOTHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Nestled between mountains in Indian-administered Kashmir, teachers lead school children in the village of Churanda in morning prayers,

Malik Khadim’s lips tremble, his voice chokes and his head dips as he raises a hand to his grief-stricken face. It’s a vain effort to stem the tears gushing down his gaunt and weatherbeaten cheeks.

Indian and Pakistani soldiers exchanged heavy volleys of shells and gunfire across their frontier in Kashmir overnight, killing at least five civilians amid a growing military standoff that erupted following an attack on tourists in the India-controlled portion of the disputed region.

A civil administrator was killed and two others wounded in Pakistani shelling in a frontier town near the highly militarized Line of Control in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said on Saturday.

Tension between the nuclear-armed nations is soaring. Pakistan's Shehbaz Sharif has vowed to retaliate after Indian strikes killed more than two dozen people.

A gun massacre of tourists on April 22 pushed India and Pakistan a step closer to war, their most serious confrontation in decades

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A ceasefire to end the conflict between India and Pakistan was shaken by overnight border fighting in the disputed Kashmir region. People on both sides of the Line of Control, which divides the territory, reported heavy exchanges of fire ...