Suspected Mujahideen shot dead five people in occupied Kashmir, police said on Tuesday, while Australia's visiting army chief said that ideas the Indian army was using to stem insurgency in the region could be applied elsewhere. An Indian occupation forces border guard was killed and another wounded in an ambush by alleged Mujahideen in southern Anantnag district, a police spokesman said.
Another policeman was killed and two others wounded in an overnight attack by suspected Mujahideen in Dangiwachi village of northern Baramulla district, which borders Azad Kashmir, he said.
Separately, police said suspected Mujahideen shot dead two civilians in the northern town of Sopore, while a Kashmiri member of the Indian occupation army was shot dead in his house in occupied southern Anantnag district.
The attacks came ahead of the arrival on Tuesday of Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in New Delhi for talks with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on Kashmir issue.
Tens of thousands of people have died in occupied Kashmir since the eruption in 1989 of insurgency in the region, once India's main tourist attraction.
The fresh violence also came as Australia's army chief, Lieutenant General Peter Leahy was visiting the de facto border dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
Talking to the reporters in occupied Srinagar, Leahy said later that "terror" was a "common threat" to the two countries.
"We face a common threat of terror. I think it beholds all of us to study, to learn and to appreciate what we can do to overcome that threat," he said.
"We are trying to learn from each other as we see commonality in the places," General Leahy said.
He said ideas Indian occupation army was applying in occupied Kashmir to end insurgency could be applied elsewhere, including Iraq.
"There are ideas here in the (occupied Kashmir) Valley that we could look at and apply in various insurgencies around the world," he said.
India is battling a deadly insurgency in occupied Kashmir, which it terms "terrorism". Freedom fighters describe the armed uprising as a "freedom struggle."