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    • Archive for May, 1988

    India, Pakistan peace talks resume after two years

    ISLAMABAD, May 12 (1988): Pakistan and India will resume talks on normalising relations next week after a two year gap and only days after the start of a Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Pakistani Minister of State for Defence Rana Naeem Mahmud told reporters on Thursday Indian Defence Secretary S.K. Bhatnagar would have two days of talks on May 19 and 20 with his opposite number Ijlal Haidar Zaidi. An Indian embassy official said the talks would focus on the Siachen glacier, a disputed area...

    Posted 9140 days ago.

    India charges Pakistan with raid on Kashmir glacier post

    NEW DELHI, May 12 (1988): India accused Pakistani troops on Thursday of raiding an army post high on the disputed Siachen Glacier in the Himalayas 10 days before senior officials were due to hold talks about the dispute. An official spokesman said Pakistani troops attacked an Indian post at Bana on the night of May 9. He said the attack was fought off with artillery and small arms without any casualties on the Indian side. Pakistani casualties could not be determined because of poor visibility, he added. The top...

    Posted 9140 days ago.

    India charges Pakistan with raid on Kashmir glacier post

    NEW DELHI, May 12 (1988): India accused Pakistani troops on Thursday of raiding an army post high on the disputed Siachen Glacier in the Himalayas 10 days before senior officials were due to hold talks about the dispute. An official spokesman said Pakistani troops attacked an Indian post at Bana on the night of May 9. He said the attack was fought off with artillery and small arms without any casualties on the Indian side. Pakistani casualties could not be determined because of poor visibility, he added. (For...

    Posted 9143 days ago.

    Kashmir hospital evacuated after collapse of another

    NEW DELHI, May 5 (1988): Authorities in Kashmir have evacuated a new hospital where cracks were found four days after 10 people died in the collapse of another hospital, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said on Thursday. It said the hospital at Poonch, in west Kashmir, completed only two years ago, was evacuated after "huge fissures" developed in the building. Last Monday, a childrens' hospital only three years old collapsed in Jammu, some 130 km (80 miles) south-east of Poonch, killing 10 people, according to an...

    Posted 9147 days ago.

    Twenty one die in children hospital collapse in Kashmir

    SRINAGAR, May 2 (1988): A three- storey children's hospital collapsed in Jammu on Monday, killing at least 21 people - mostly young patients, hospital officials said. Hospital superintendant D.R. Manhas, said 21 bodies had been recovered so far. Manhas said he believed no more than 30 people died in the collapse, well short of the feared 150 deaths reported by unofficial sources. Officials in Jammu said at least 25 children left their wards screaming "run, run" as the top two floors of the...

    Posted 9150 days ago.

    Twenty one die in Kashmir's children hospital collapse

    SRINAGAR, May 2 (1988): A three-storey children's hospital collapsed in the north Indian city of Jammu on Monday, killing at least 21 people - mostly young patients, hospital officials said. Hospital superintendant D.R. Manhas, said 21 bodies had been recovered so far. Manhas, reached by telephone from Srinagar, said he believed no more than 30 people died in the collapse, well short of the feared 150 deaths reported by unofficial sources. Officials in Jammu said at least 25 children left their wards screaming...

    Posted 9150 days ago.