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One of the two men arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by gunmen in the Mumbai attacks is a counter-insurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission, security officials said Saturday. The officials in Indian Kashmir demanded that police in Calcutta, where the suspect is being held, arrange for his quick release.

SRINAGAR, India (AFP) - Seven people were killed and 45 others injured in Indian Kashmir in a bloody start to the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan which Islamic rebels have vowed will be soaked in violence. Ramadan began in Kashmir on Tuesday with a warning from hardline Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba that it would increase attacks during the holy month. "There will be an escalation in the activities of mujahedin (holy warriors) in the month of Ramadan," Abu Huzaifa, the spokesman for the Lashkar-e-Taiba group told the Greater Kashmir newspaper. The newspaper said: "People should keep themselves away from the...