SRINAGAR, Sept. 30 (1989): The police fired on crowds protesting the arrest of a separatist leader in northern Jammu-Kashmir state, killing at least 5 and wounding 75, officials said. The authorities imposed a curfew and sent soldiers in Anantnag, where three people were killed by police gunfire on Friday, a Government spokesman said. The police fired on crowds protesting the arrest of a separatist leader in northern Jammu-Kashmir state, killing at least 5 and wounding 75, officials said. The authorities imposed a...

SRINAGAR, Sept 29 (1989): Kashmir region was engulfed in violence on Friday as radical Moslems took to the streets over the capture of a militant leader. Police said three people were killed when they opened fire on attacking bands of protesters. Troops were on standby to enforce an indefinite curfew in Anantnag, hometown of captured separatist Shabir Ahmed Shah. The latest clashes broke out a few hours after police captured Shah, leader of the People's League. Police said his capture was a major breakthrough...

SRINAGAR, Sept 28 (1989): Police have captured a Kashmiri militant whose People's League is fighting to wrench the Moslem-majority state out of the Indian union, officials said on Thursday. Shabir Ahmed Shah was arrested on Wednesday night with two other separatists while driving between Jammu and Srinagar, the winter and summer capitals of Jammu and Kashmir state. Police said the capture of Shah was a major breakthrough in their battle against gunmen fighting to overturn Kashmir's accession to India after...

SRINAGAR, Sept 18 (1989): New violence rocked India's Kashmir state on Monday during a general strike called by separatists to mark the anniversary of the death of a comrade killed in an attack on a senior police officer. Six policemen and three women were injured when a grenade was hurled at a patrol in the volatile city of Srinagar, summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state, police said. At least a dozen others were hurt when police opened fire and used teargas against stone-throwing crowds shouting anti-Indian...

SRINAGAR, Sept 14 (1989): Gunmen shot dead a prominent Hindu politician on Thursday in Srinagar, the main city of Indian-ruled Kashmir. Police said Tiklal Tiploo, a senior official in the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was shot dead by two men as he left his home in Srinagar. It was not immediately clear whether the gunmen were Sikh separatists or Moslem rebels fighting for Kashmir's independence from India. The Hindu-revivalist BJP has incurred the wrath of both. Tiploo had become a target because of his...

BELGRADE, Sept 6 (1989): India protested to Pakistan on Wednesday after Pakistan's Senior Minister Nusrat Bhutto mentioned their dispute over Kashmir in a public speech at the non-aligned summit. The two countries had earlier appeared to be setting aside tensions rising from three wars, two of them fought over Kashmir, a disputed border area. India controls two-thirds of the territory and Pakistan the remainder. "We expressed our regret over Mrs Bhutto's decision to raise a purely bilateral issue at a public forum...