SRINAGAR, June 29 (1990): Kashmiri militants burst into the home of a senior judge in India's Jammu and Kashmir state and shot him dead on Friday, police said. The slaying marked the latest violence in a week of bloody clashes between Indian security forces and Moslem militants campaigning for the Kashmir valley's secession from India. In Srinagar, the centre of the secessionist campaign that has claimed more than 700 lives since January, neighbours said they saw two armed men running from the house of Abdul Aziz Khan...

SRINAGAR, June 27 (1990): Kashmiri doctors and medical workers have accused Indian security forces of shooting to kill in their crackdown on a militant separatist revolt in Jammu and Kashmir, the country's only Moslem majority state. "We have with tight lip witnessed the victims of relentless shooting by the security forces at the behest of the administration," the Jammu and Kashmir Medical Coordination Committee said in a statement. "We have seen the heads, chests and vital organs of pregnant women, innocent...

SRINAGAR, June 27 (1990): Two civilians were killed and security forces set 25 shops ablaze in a Kashmir Valley town in clashes with separatist militants, local police sources said on Wednesday. Militants opened fire on the forces from shops in Sopore, 60 km (40 miles) west of the summer capital, Srinagar, while the paramilitary troops were making house-to-house searches on Tuesday, the sources said. Two civilians were shot dead and one injured in the ensuing gunbattle and paramilitary troops set the shops on fire to...

SRINAGAR, June 26 (1990): Kashmir governor, Girish Saxena, said on Tuesday he believed separatist violence could increase as more and better-equipped militants crossed the border from Pakistani territory. "Maybe three or four thousand are waiting to cross the border. Some will filter through," Saxena said in an interview at his lakeside residence in Srinagar, summer capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir state. "The number of arms and trained terrorists will increase. We'll have to find the right responses," he...

SRINAGAR, June 25 (1990): Kashmiri militants shot dead four members of a family after accusing them of being police informers, police and militants said on Monday. The bullet-ridden bodies of the four were found on Monday morning in the village of Waripura in northwest Kashmir, near the ceasefire line that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan, police in the nearby town of Sopore said. Pro-Pakistan Hezb-ul-Mujahideen (Party of the Holy Warriors) claimed responsibility in a telephone call to a local...

SRINAGAR, June 20 (1990):Separatist Kashmiri militants blew up two men on Thursday by tying bombs to them at two busy markets in Srinagar, police and witnesses said. Witnesses said three gunmen brought a man in an autorickshaw to Nowhatta Bazaar in central Srinagar, pushed him out and then exploded a bomb tied to his body. A man was killed in the same way at Nai Sarak, about four km (two and a half miles) from Nowhatta Bazaar, they said. Police said the two victims worked for the security forces and were kidnapped...

NEW DELHI, June 19 (1990):New Delhi on Tuesday dismissed as irrelevant the formation of a provisional government by the main Moslem militant group fighting for independence for Jammu and Kashmir state. "It is not a matter to be given serious attention. It is not a matter of special significance," an Indian foreign office spokesman said. The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) announced in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir on Monday that it was setting up a "provisional government of the independent...

SRINAGAR, June 18 (1990): Security forces shot dead a separatist leader in a 30-minute gunbattle in Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar on Monday but lost five of their own men, police officials said. The rebel leader was identified as Muhammad Badullah Bangroo, a field commander of the Hezb-ul-Mujahideen, one of several groups fighting for Kashmir's independence or union with Pakistan. The shooting began when Bangroo and three aides fired at security forces from a house, officials said. The three aides were...

MUZAFFARABAD, June 18 (1990): The main Moslem militant group fighting in Jammu and Kashmir state named a provisional government on Monday and said the aim was to step up its battle. But political analysts said the surprise move, announced by Amanullah Khan, chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, might not find favour with Pakistan. Amanullah, who is based in Pakistan, told a news conference that he would act as chief spokesman for a 24-member council of ministers and advisers until a president and prime...

NEW DELHI, July 17 (1990): India said on Saturday the withdrawal of infiltrators from Kashmir's ceasefire line was almost complete as a new deadline expired for a retreat to Pakistan's side of the disputed territory's ceasefire line. It warned that any guerrillas remaining in Indian-held Kashmir would be treated as hostile. As the most serious conflict between the nuclear rivals edged to a close, controversy raged over whether the militants dug in on Himalayan heights were Pakistani army regulars or Kashmiri freedom...