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  • Archive for May, 1983

    Pride and politics fan Kashmir's separatist fires

    By WILLIAM K. STEVENS SRINAGAR, May 31 (1983): Scratch a citizen of Kashmir, it is said here, and you will most likely find a nationalist who, if his deepest feelings were known, would prefer to see his Himalayan land become an independent country India is not likely to allow that to happen to its northernmost state, a strategically important land of world-renowned mountain beauty and fiercely independent people. This is especially true now, when the New Delhi Government of Prime...

    Posted 10946 days ago.

    Mrs. Gandhi campaigns in a turbulent Kashmir

    NEW DELHI, May 30 (1983):Prime Minister Indira Gandhi opened a three-day campaign tour today in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, where an estimated 1,000 people were injured in clashes on Sunday, the Press Trust of India reported. The agency said the violence erupted between supporters of rival parties for next Sunday's state election, including the ruling National Conference Party and Mrs. Gandhi's Congress Party. Mrs. Gandhi, addressing election meetings in the southern Jammu region of the state,...

    Posted 10947 days ago.

    90 hurt In Kashmir brawling

    SRINAGAR, May 29 (1983): At least 90 people were injured today in political clashes in the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, which holds local elections on June 5, the Press Trust of India, a news agency, reported. The report said the fighting was between supporters of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Congress Party and those of the National Conference Party, which rules the state. It broke out as a convoy of some 150 trucks and buses full of Conference Party members drove through villages in the Kashmir Valley....

    Posted 10948 days ago.