Indian gunners fired two rockets today at a mosque in the Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir, killing 19 worshipers, Pakistani officials said.

In 1949, a cease-fire line separating the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir was formally put into effect.

In 1972, the then-current border between the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir was designated as the "Line of Control".

On what to do with the de facto border, the Line of Control, which divides the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir, no longer is there a sharp gulf in opinion.

India proposed that Kashmiris from the Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir could have access to medical relief at three points on the Indian side.

Relatives of the two kidnapped Pakistanis, who are both from the Rawalakot District in the Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir, appealed to their captors on Monday.

Pakistan provides arms and money for several of the main insurgent groups, as well running training camps in the Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir.

The scene across the steep terraced mountains of the Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir remains one of devastation and dislocation.

For its part, the Indian Government has thus far held its troops back from crossing into the Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir.

The president made the announcement while visiting Muzaffarabad, the flattened capital of the Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir, the Himalayan region claimed by both India and Pakistan.