Border calm as 'war-ready' stand-off continues

Pakistan-based Islamic militants in Kashmir were lying low today amid rising US pressure on Islamabad to clampdown on terrorists who have brought India and its neighbour to the brink of a fourth war.

There was calm overnight on the border, where nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan have rushed troops, tanks, artillery guns and ballistic missiles amid rising tensions provoked by a suicide attack on India’s Parliament, blamed on Islamabad.