MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan/SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - A Pakistan-based militant group has disowned a splinter faction suspected of a string of killings in Indian-occupied Kashmir, with the rebuke followed swiftly on Friday by a string of attacks on telecoms facilities in the state's main city.
The escalating rivalry is fuelling concern that rogue insurgents could ratchet up tension between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. Both claim the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, and have fought two of their three wars over it since becoming separate countries in 1947.
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