For more than a decade, the military has trained and financed civilian jihadis who cross into the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir to create havoc.

These incursions into the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir have brought repeated violence and led to a military buildup along the border.

The Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has also announced a $143 million relief package for the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.

Since 1989 Pakistan has supported an Islamic insurgency in the Indian-controlled part, although it denies providing material aid.

Both countries claim Kashmir, which is divided between them, and Pakistan-backed militants have waged a 12-year insurgency in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.

Earlier this year, Muslim militants massacred more than a score of Hindus in a village in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.

In the last decade, as an armed insurgency arose in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir, Pakistan's military provided aid.

Nearly two-thirds of the population in the Indian-controlled part of the state is Muslim.

India has been fighting to evict what it says are Pakistan-backed Afghan mercenaries and Pakistani troops from the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.

Most had been trying to cross the line that separates the Pakistani- and Indian-controlled parts of the territory.