India's Prime Minister to visit disputed Kashmir border

India’s prime minister was planning to visit soldiers along its tense frontier with Pakistan today, where heavy cross-border shelling has killed dozens and reignited fears of war between the nuclear-armed rivals.

Shortly after prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee arrived in Kashmir province yesterday, masked gunmen assassinated a leading Kashmiri peace advocate during a ceremony marking the murder of another independence leader 12 years ago.