All this wordy venom is spewed out across several sites on the Web, and is shared equally by hate-Pakistan and hate-India denizens of the virtual world. Even as the `Mujahideen' and `Pakistani soldiers' intrusion into India was being repelled by the Indian army, proxy wars broke out between ardent Indians and Pakistanis on the Net.

Several sites on the Kargil issue have sprung up with constant updates on the goings on in the Himalayan mountainside. So much so that a Pakistani teenager even hacked into some Indian sites and scrawled the virtues of Pakistan all over them.

Notwithstanding such hacker intrusions, the war over the Net continues, especially in the letters to the editor from either side in Pakistaniand India newspaper sites. The Pakistani newspaper, Dawn, at www.dawn.com, even proudly advertises the fact that its site was blocked off by the Indian authorities. They have a special link-up to a page which tells the world how VSNL could not stomach the `truth' that Dawn had to say about Kashmir and blocked access to India-based surfers of the Net.

Here's a sampling on the India-hate mail one can find on the Net: Ahmad Zafar Farooqi, Wing Commander (Rtd) PAF Karachi wrote to Dawn that ``the sacrifices made by the Mujahideen shall not go in vain, but the time chosen for inflicting damage on the Indian armed forces in Occupied Kashmir was a bit too early. Confusion resulting from the forthcoming elections campaign in Bharat and just a little more cold weather to which the brave fighters on our side are more accustomed to than the soldiers who are being sent from Rajasthan to fight in Kargil, would have given us tactical advantage in movement!''

Other Pakistani sites like www.millat.com, www.jung.com andwww.inpakistan.com have their share of news items and letters which are anti-Indian. While the Indian sites on Kargil like www.indiainfo.com, www.armyinkashmir.org and www.armedforces.nic.in, www.rediff.com and all the Indian newspaper sites talk of the victories of the Indian armed forces, the Pakistani sites talk of the atrocities committed by the Indian army and the heavy casualties inflicted on it by the Mujahideen.

There are two Indian sites which are devoted solely to the Indian soldiers: www.heroesofkargil.com and www.campuscat.com. The first pays tribute to the Indian soldiers who were killed during Operation Vijay while the other offers to sends copies of e-mail sent to their site to boost the morale of Indian soldiers.

The guns may have fallen silent now near the LoC but the words are still being fired across the Net, keeping the India vs Pakistan fight alive.