SRINAGAR, April 30 (1990): Suspected militants killed five people on Monday in Srinigar and other towns in Kashmir, where militants are fighting against control by India, a police spokesman said. Police also revealed that two photographers were arrested on Sunday in the disputed region. The five were killed because they were thought to be police informers, the spokesman said. Their bodies were found during a nine-hour break in a curfew imposed last month on Srinagar, summer capital Jammu and Kashmir. (For...

ISLAMABAD, April 29 (1990): A senior Pakistani official, reacting to a tough Indian warning over Kashmir, accused India on Sunday of making false assertions and using intemperate language. "I regret that India should have repeated its bellicose statements so soon after the foreign minister and his Indian counterpart agreed to exercise restraint," the Foreign Ministry official said in an interview. "I express our deep disappointment at this statement that is full of false assertions and intemperate language." India...

JAMMU, April 29 (1990): Authorities said on Sunday it had banned residents of Kashmir from leaving the disputed region, torn by a violent separatist revolt. "They will be provided protection and shelter within the valley itself," Home Minister Mufti Mohhammad Sayeed told reporters in Jammu, winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir, India's only Moslem-majority state. "We are going to ensure that no one leaves the valley out of fear," he said. Kashmiri Hindus and Sikhs would not be permitted to migrate to other parts of...

NEW DELHI, April 28,(!990): India said it will do whatever necessary to halt alleged infiltrations from Pakistan controlled Kashmir supporting an anti-Indian uprising in Kashmir Valley. "The government of India will not tolerate infringements of its sovereignty...and will take appropriate measures to prevent such occurrences," Foreign Ministry spokesman Aftab Seth said. "There will be no compromise on the measures necessary to protect our integrity," he added. Asked whether this meant the Indian armed forces might...

JAMMU, April 27, (1990) Two senior Kashmir officials have been arrested in connection with last year's kidnapping of the Indian Home Minister's daughter, a government spokesman said on Friday. The spokesman said the officials had admitted their involvement in the December 1989 kidnapping of Rubaiya, daughter of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, in Srinagar, summer capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir state. (For complete story write to admin@freepresskashmir.com)

NEW DELHI, April 26 (1990): India's crackdown on Moslem Kashmiri militants is showing signs of at least temporary success, easing fears of a fourth war with Pakistan it had provoked, officials and diplomats say. "The security forces are on top now in the (Kashmir) Valley, which reduces the pressure on the government to go into Pakistani-occupied Kashmir and take out the militant training camps," said one senior Indian official. "Things are looking better, but this is going to be a long drawn out thing. I'm no dove on...

SRINAGAR, April 25 (1990): Moslem militants seeking to end Indian rule in Kashmir shot dead at least four people on Wednesday in scattered incidents, officials said. The victims were apparently suspected of being police informers by the militants, they said. The shootings marred an otherwise peaceful day in India's only Moslem-majority state, which has been racked by a violent separatist movement. A stringent curfew imposed in mid-January on Srinagar was lifted again for eight hours on Wednesday but no violence was...

NEW YORK, April 25 (1990): The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan agreed on Wednesday on steps to try to reduce tensions over Kashmir, but without narrowing their underlying differences. About 300 people have been killed since mid-January in the Indian-ruled state where a Moslem secessionist movement has brought relations between the two countries to the boiling point. A communique issued at the end of a 2-1/2-hour meeting between Foreign Ministers Inder Gujral of India and Sahabzada Yaqub-Kahn of Pakistan said...

SRINAGAR, April 24 (1990):Hundreds of fearful Hindu and Sikh civil servants in turbulent Kashmir stopped work on Tuesday to protest against the Indian state government's annual move to its Moslem-dominated summer capital. A spokesman for the employees' coordination committee said the state workers would defy the order to shift from Jammu to Srinagar to the north in the Kashmir Valley on April 30. He said they were afraid of being killed by Moslem militants. "They will not go to Srinagar as their lives are not secure...

ISLAMABAD, April 23, (1990): The United Nations reported a sharp rise in the number of border violations between India and Pakistan, embroiled in a dispute over Kashmir, in the first quarter of 1990. The commander of the U.N. military observer group in India and Pakistan, Brigadier-General Jerry Enright, said in an interview on Sunday his group had recorded 191 Indian border violations from January to March, compared with 44 in the same period in 1989. New Delhi does not allow the United Nations to investigate...