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Pakistan and India are have accused each other of firing across their de-facto border in Kashmir. India says Pakistan is arming and training insurgents fighting for Kashmir's independence from India or its merger with Pakistan. Pakistan says India's stance is a "blatant attempt" to deflect attention from human rights abuses in the region. Professor Tahir Abbas is a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. In this extract he speaks to Â鶹Éç's Jhangir Ahmed about the impact of the latest hostilities in South Asia and on the UK diaspora...