SRINAGAR, India: The Indian army says Pakistani troops have fired across their disputed frontier in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, killing two civilians.

Indian military spokesman Col. Brijesh Pandey said Pakistani forces fired mortars into the Uri sector on the Indian side of Kashmir yesterday.

Pandey says a shell hit a house close to the military line dividing Kashmir between the countries.

There was no independent confirmation of the incident.

Pandey says Indian troops did not retaliate and accused Pakistan of violating a 2003 cease-fire accord.

Though the cease-fire has been holding, there have been isolated shooting incidents.

Since their independence from Britain in 1947, India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over control of Kashmir, a territory both claim in its entirety.

Sikh terrorist appeals perjury conviction

Meanwhile, the only person convicted in the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 people off the coast of Ireland is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn his perjury conviction.

Inderjit Singh Reyat had already served 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter for his role as the bomb maker. He was convicted of perjury in September 2010 and sentenced to another nine years in prison. He filed the appeal yesterday, according to reports from Vancouver, British Columbia.

Reyat was accused of lying during the 2003 trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, who were acquitted of mass murder in the bombing of Air India Flight 182. Another explosion at an airport in Tokyo killed two baggage handlers.

Prosecutors maintain the bombing was revenge by Sikh separatists for a deadly 1984 raid by Indian forces on the Golden Temple at Amritsar, Sikhism’s holiest shrine.