India-Pakistan talks in jeopardy as Indian soldiers killed

Supporters of Shiv Sena, a Hindu hardline group, burn Pakistan's national flag and portraits of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during a protest in Jammu August 6, 2013. India summoned Pakistan's deputy envoy to New Delhi on Tuesday and lodged a protest over the killing of five soldiers on the disputed Kashmir border, a government source said. REUTERS/Stringer

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - India said a group of militants from Pakistan killed five of its soldiers in an ambush along the disputed border in Kashmir on Tuesday, an accusation that threatens to derail efforts to resume peace talks.

Pakistan rejected the allegation, saying there had been no exchange of fire along the heavily militarised border in Kashmir, the cause of two of three wars between the nuclear rivals. It said it was committed to a decade-old ceasefire and wanted to restart talks.