SRINAGAR, May 12 (1989): Gunmen ambushed a tourist bus and a mob of 1,500 attacked a police station on Friday in fresh anti-Indian attacks that left two people dead, police said. Five Indian holidaymakers were injured and taken to hospital after men hiding in bushes shot at a tourist bus on a mountain road outside Srinagar, summer capital of Jammu-Kashmir state, police said. Two protesters were shot dead and 30 injured when a crowd of 1,500 hurled stones at a police station after Moslem Friday prayers in old Srinagar....

ISLAMABAD, May 11 (19989): Pakistan said on Thursday it had countered Indian army moves to establish new posts on a disputed Himalayan glacier. But a defence ministry statement gave no details of what it called Pakistan's "defensive and protective measures" at the Siachen glacier. An Indian army officer said earlier this week that Pakistan and India had fought intensified artillery duels across the glacier in disputed Kashmir state over the past three weeks, causing casualties on both sides. Lieutenant-General B.C....

SRINAGAR, May 10 (1989): A series of bomb blasts this week in the state of Kashmir appeared to signal an escalation in a campaign by separatists for independence from India, police said on Wednesday. At least five explosions on Monday and Tuesday followed a call by a pro-independence group for a four-day general strike starting on Thursday. At least one person was killed and seven injured, police said. The state government blames the Jammu and Kahsmir Liberation Front for bom blasts in the region over the last nine...

SIACHEN GLACIER, May 10 (1989): Pakistan and India have fought increased artillery duels across the world's highest battlefield in the past three weeks, causing casualties on both sides, a senior Indian army officer said. Lieutenant-General B.C. Nanda said he believed Pakistani losses on the Siachen Glacier had been high and acknowledged: "We too have suffered some casualties." No immediate comment was available from the Islamabad government. Nanda, commander of India's northern army forces, declined to say how...

SRINAGAR, May 6 (1989): Kashmiri militants seeking secession from India have called a four-day strike from May 11 and formed suicide squads to combat police action against it. The move is expected to result in renewed violence after a suspension of anti-government protests for the Moslem Ramadan fast. The month-long fast finished on Saturday in Kashmir, the only state with a Moslem majority in predominantly Hindu India. (For complete story write to admin@freepressKashmir.com)