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After more than 100 days of deadly protests in Kashmir, India this week sent the equivalent of a peace delegation.

A massive avalanche plowed into an Indian army training center at a ski resort town in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, killing at least 17 soldiers and critically wounding 17 others.

A stand-off between militants and security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir has entered its second day. A civilian and a policeman were killed after militants threw a grenade and opened fire in Srinagar on Wednesday.

A police official says a suicide bomber has detonated his explosives outside a Shiite Muslim gathering in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, killing five people.

Three suspected Taliban militants blew themselves up on Saturday as police chased them in Pakistani Kashmir, police said.