SRINAGAR, Aug 19 (1988): Police killed three persons and wounded at least nine today when they opened fire on crowds who defied a curfew imposed after the death of Pakistani president Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, officials said. Troops also patrolled the streets of border towns to control violence caused by Zia's death. At a special meeting in New Delhi, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and his Cabinet observed a minute's silence in memory of Zia. In Srinagar authorities imposed an indefinite curfew when crowds...

SRINAGAR, Aug 6 (1988): Defence Minister K.C. Pant said on Saturday that troops recently repulsed a Pakistani attack on Indian positions guarding a strategic glacier high in the Himalayas. He told a news conference the alleged attack occurred on the Siachen glacier in the last week in July, but that the problem was quickly defused by commanders from both sides who met to talk it over. Pant said there were no casualties in the latest of many exchanges of fire by troops on the glacier, which controls...

SRINAGAR, Aug 2(1988): Police arrested four people on Tuesday in connection with two bomb blasts in Srinagar. Kashmir police chief Gulam Jeelani Pandit described the four as political activists, but would not disclose their identities or say what organisation they were alleged to belong to. The bombs damaged the exclusive Srinagar Club and the city's telegraph office last weekend and sparked fears of new political tension in the disputed state, a third of which is controlled by Pakistan. Pandit...

SRINAGAR, Aug 1(1988): Two bombs exploded in Srinagar reviving fears of new political tension in Kashmir. The first bomb went off outside the exclusive Srinagar Club late on Saturday and the second about four hours later near the central telegraph office early on Sunday, police said. Nobody was injured, but both buildings suffered damage to outer walls and windows. Local officials said they were concerned that the explosions, first for more than two years, could herald a new wave of civil violence...