They are militant leaders from Kashmir and Pakistan who are trying to wrest this part of Kashmir from Indian control.
Delhi said it was reluctant to accept any stamp marked Government of Azad (Free) Kashmir, referring to the administration of the part of Kashmir under Pakistan's control.
India, which has threatened punitive action against militants intruding into its side of Kashmir from Pakistan, launched heavy mortar fire at Pakistani posts earlier in the week.
Senior Indian army and police officers say that militants continue to cross into Indian Kashmir from Pakistan, but they believe that Pakistan is trying to curb major terrorist attacks.
In another incident, five suspected militants are reported to have been gunned down after they entered the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir from Pakistan in the Rajouri district early on Sunday.
It will not tolerate the circulation of maps (in most cases) that show Pakistan-controlled Kashmir as, well, Pakistan-controlled.
India also accuses Pakistan of supporting the militants in Kashmir, an allegation Pakistan denies.
Tensions between India and Pakistan over Kashmir dominated Mr Hoon's talks with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad on Wednesday.
On the security front, the general made no promises to stem the movement of militants into Indian Kashmir from the Pakistan side.
These were intended to be selectively deployed in Afghanistan and, later, Kashmir, where Pakistan has been engaged in a long-running dispute with India.
India, for its part, is concerned by Obama's repeated assertions that its refusal to transfer control over the disputed Jammu and Kashmir provinces to Pakistan inspires Pakistani terror against India.
The latest outrage could strengthen hawks, who argue that India should retaliate George Bush-style against groups with bases in the part of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan and in Pakistan proper.
Although India demands the return of chunks of Kashmir held by Pakistan and China, it in fact already possesses the most fertile and populous parts of the state, including the eponymous vale.
India routinely accuses Pakistan of aiding and equipping the militants fighting a 14-year-long insurgency against its rule in Kashmir - a charge Pakistan denies.
It refuses to talk directly to Pakistan about Kashmir until it thinks that support has been curtailed.
You could probably launch a war and overrun not just Kashmir but much of Pakistan as well.
We reported earlier on India's scramble to buy munitions to continue its artillery battle with Pakistan in Kashmir.
It is the commitment to resume talks on Kashmir that would offer Pakistan hope of avoiding complete humiliation.
If any government allows Kashmir to go to Pakistan, it would have a domino effect on the whole country.
India will have to find a way of talking to Pakistan about Kashmir without believing that means surrendering it.
India is to back off from its threat of war and, eventually, to resume talks with Pakistan on Kashmir.
India is refusing to talk to Pakistan about Kashmir until cross-border terrorism ends.
India's nuclear arms are inextricably tied to its face-off with Pakistan over Kashmir.
India resented and successfully resisted his appointment of an envoy with a brief to meddle in India's dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir.
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War between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, of which Srinagar is part, has driven up the tension rate and driven out the tourists.
Indian security forces shot dead 12 militants in the Saujian area of Poonch district, near the Line of Control which divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
But he left the two conflict-prone countries as he had found them aggressively divided by the half-century-old dispute over Kashmir as Pakistan's declaration of a state of alert demonstrated.
Colin Powell, the American secretary of state, said in Delhi in July that credible elections could be a first step toward peace in Kashmir and dialogue with Pakistan.
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India will have to talk to Pakistan about Kashmir eventually.
He said Islamabad wants to improve the situation in the region, but said it will be a mistake to think that India can resolve the Kashmir dispute by bypassing Pakistan.
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