BARBARA CROSSETTE ISLAMABAD, Dec. 31 (1989): As the young Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan met for the first time Thursday, raising hopes for less bitter dealings between the two powers of the Indian subcontinent, a small motorcade drove up out of history with a cautionary message: Remember Kashmir. As the young Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan met for the first time Thursday, raising hopes for less bitter dealings between the two powers of the Indian subcontinent, a small motorcade...

JAMMU, Dec 30 (1989): Indian security forces killed three armed men in a gunfight near the border with Pakistan on Saturday, official sources said. The sources said the men, carrying AK-47 rifles, had crossed from Pakistan and opened fire when they ran into a border security patrol some 30 km (20 miles) west of Jammu in the Himalayan state of Kashmir. India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir, India's only Moslem-majority state. Over the past 18 months militants there have pressed demands...

JAMMU, Dec 27 (1989): Kashmiri secessionists have shot dead a freelance journalist and lawyer opposed to their cause, police said in Jammu, winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir state, on Wednesday. Police said P.N. Bhat was killed outside his house in the southern Kashmir town of Anantanag where he practised law. Bhat was known for his critical views on the Kashmiri separatist movement and wrote articles in local newspapers. violence in recent months in the Moslem-majority northern state, bordering...

SRINAGAR, Dec 21 (1989): One of the regulars at the Naya Hotel and Bar spotted the bomb under a table, shouted an alarm and led other customers in a rush to the door. Allah's Tigers had struck again. "We had been threatened before," said K.H. Dar, managing partner of the hotel. "We were planning to close the bar anyway and this just accelerated the schedule," he added, puffing on a large hookah filled with locally grown tobacco. Police defused the bomb, planted earlier this month, and the Naya Bar became the...

NEW DELHI, Dec. 17(1989): The strategically important Kashmir valley was under curfew for the third day today as the Government moved in troops and put armored personnel carriers on the streets of Srinagar to prevent pro-independence demonstrations. The strategically important Kashmir valley was under curfew for the third day today as the Government moved in troops and put armored personnel carriers on the streets of Srinagar to prevent pro-independence demonstrations. In the winter cold, people are being prevented...

SRINAGAR, Dec 15 (1989): A curfew was imposed on Srinagar and two other cities in India's troubled Kashmir region on Friday to head off any violence at weekly Islamic prayers arising from the release of five separatists. Kashmir Commissioner Mohammad Sheffi Pandit told reporters the curfew was for an indefinite period and would be lifted only when authorities felt the situation had returned to normal. "As a precaution, because there were apprehensions of trouble today, all security steps were taken," Pandit...

SRINAGAR, Dec 15 (1989): Five militants freed in exchange for the kidnapped daughter of the Indian interior minister's daughter have taken up arms again in the secessionist cause, their organisation said on Friday. The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) said the five, freed on Wednesday, had taken a fresh oath of loyalty to the movement. "They have taken up arms again," said the statement sent to reporters. The five, to jubilation and dancing on the streets of Srinagar, were freed in exchange for Rubia...