India and Pakistan exchange deadly fire after return of captured Indian pilot

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At least six civilians and two Pakistani soldiers were killed in the latest exchange of artillery fire between India and Pakistan along the disputed Kashmir frontier. The fighting took place a day after Pakistan returned a captured air force pilot back to India. Tension between India and Pakistan recently escalated after a suicide bomb attack in Indian Kashmir that killed 40 Indian paramilitary police officers, with the Pakistan-backed militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed claiming responsibility…