CAIRO, July 31 (1990): Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told Islamic ministers meeting in Cairo on Tuesday of "repressive practices" in Kashmir, drawing an angry reaction from India's ambassador to Egypt. Prince Saud, speaking at a meeting of Organisation of Islamic Conference (ICO) foreign ministers, said the people of Jammu and Kashmir began their revolt in January seeking "to freely exercise their right to self-determination, in accordance with the numerous resolutions adopted by the Security...

MOSCOW, July 24 (1990): India won strong Kremlin support on Tuesday for its bloody struggle with Moslem secessionists in Kashmir. The Soviet news agency Tass said President Mikhail Gorbachev expressed "complete understanding and support" to visiting Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh over the north Indian state, where more than 900 people have been killed in the past few months. Singh countered with backing for Gorbachev's struggle to hold his own multi-racial state together in against secessionists in many of its...

SRINAGAR, July 23 (1990): Officials in Kashmir defied the government and started a three-day strike on Monday in protest against what they called repression by security forces fighting secessionist militants. Union officials said about 80 per cent of government workers stayed at home in Srinagar, summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, India's only Moslem-majority state. The Indian government, which has imposed its direct rule on the state, issued a statement saying the workers could face disciplinary action if they went...

SRINAGAR, July 23 (1990): Secessionist violence in Kashmir has killed at least 24 people over the past day, police said on Monday as local officials began a three-day strike to protest against alleged repression by Indian security forces. Union officials said about 80 per cent of government workers in Srinagar, summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state and centre of the secessionist uprising, stayed at home despite a warning from New Delhi. The Indian government, which has imposed direct rule on Kashmir, said the...

SRINAGAR, July 20 (1990): Bombings and shootings killed 16 people and injured 30 in India's Jammu and Kashmir state during the second day of inconclusive talks between India and Pakistan intended to cool tensions here, Kashmiri police said. Gunmen believed to be Moslem militants seeking separation from India sprayed automatic-weapons fire from a car into a crowd in a market area in Jammu city, winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir, killing five people and injuring 12. Suspected Moslem militants also exploded two bombs...

ISLAMABAD, July 20 (1990): India and Pakistan ended talks this week promising continued dialogue on Kashmir, but in the Indian-ruled sector of the disputed region pro-independence militants resorted to bombs to make their views known. Political analysts in Islamabad said the two-day talks, although concluded without real agreement, show tensions have eased between the two countries, which only this spring looked close to waging war over the Himalayan region. But they said neither side is willing to budge on the core...

SRINAGAR, July 18 (1990):Security forces killed 34 Kashmiri militants near the border with Pakistan on Wednesday as the two countries held talks to cool tension over a Moslem revolt in the Kashmir Valley. Militants also killed six security men in two separate attacks. Police said the militants were killed in clashes with Indian security forces in the Poonch sector near the the ceasefire line that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. J.N. Saksena, the director-general of police in Kashmir, said security...

ISLAMABAD, July 18 (1990): India and Pakistan began talks aimed at cooling tensions caused by a Moslem revolt in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday but militants in the region called a strike in protest at the meeting. The two-day talks in Islamabad are between delegations led by the countries' foreign secretaries, the top-ranking civil servants in their foreign ministries. Officials said the talks got off to a friendly start. In Indian-held Kashmir, where secessionist violence has killed more than 900 people since...

ISLAMABAD, June 28 (1990): Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said on Thursday no miracles should be expected from talks with India scheduled for next month to defuse military tension over a Moslem revolt in Kashmir. The two countries announced on Thursday that their foreign ministers would meet in Islamabad on July 18 and 19. Both governments moved troops closer to their common border in April after India accused Pakistan of arming and training militants fighting for secession of Jammu and Kashmir state from...

NEW DELHI, July 17 (1990): Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh said on Tuesday he hoped that talks between India and Pakistan would defuse tension between the two countries. "I hope these discussions will result in the defusing of tensions," Singh said in a letter to Indian parliament members. Singh's letter was released shortly before India's Foreign Secretary Muchkund Dubey left for Islamabad for talks starting on Wednesday with his Pakistani counterpart Tanvir Ahmed Khan. Official sources said the two-day...