SRINAGAR, Aug 29 (1991): At least 10 people were killed in a gunbattle on Thursday when Indian security forces posed as Moslem guerrillas to raid a Kashmiri separatist hideout, villagers and militants said. Elsewhere in Kashmir, two-thirds of which is controlled by India, militants kidnapped a paramilitary policemen, a town went on strike after security forces shot dead two unarmed men, and security forces shot dead a militant. India and Pakistan, which controls the other third, have traded accusations and sporadic...

ISLAMABAD, Aug 28 (1991): Pakistan and India both reported heavy firing between their troops in the disputed Kashmir region for the third day on Wednesday after a border clash on Monday. Pakistan said it would raise the Kashmir issue at the next non-aligned foreign ministers' meeting to be held in the capital of Ghana, Accra, on September 4-7. "Heavy fire is being exchanged by the two sides even now," a Pakistan army spokesman said. "Artillery and heavy weapons are being used by both sides since Monday." Pakistani...

ISLAMABAD, Aug 27 (1991): Pakistan repulsed an Indian military assault on a Pakistani army post in Kashmir on Monday causing heavy casualties, a military spokesman said. About 100 Indian soldiers crossed the line of control dividing Indian and Pakistani-held areas of Kashmir to try to capture Pakistani positions at Nezapur in Poonch sector, the spokesman said on Tuesday. "The attack was effectively repulsed with heavy Indian casualties," an official account of the incident said. Both sides used heavy artillery,...

NEW DELHI, Aug 27 (1991): Old enemies India and Pakistan traded charges on Tuesday over a clash in disputed Kashmir, giving radically different and conflicting accounts. A Pakistani military spokesman in Islamabad accused India of sending troops across the line dividing the two parts of the Himalayan region and said the assault was repulsed with heavy Indian losses. An Indian army spokesman said the Pakistani account was "not true" and that Pakistani shelling killed two Indian soldiers as they searched a village on...

SRINAGAR, Aug 27 (1991): At least two Indian soldiers have died in five days of clashes with Pakistani troops around a village on their ceasefire line in the Himalayan state of Kashmir, Indian army sources said on Tuesday. Both sides said heavy firing was still going on, preventing Indian soldiers from recovering bodies. The clash appeared to be one of the most serious since an insurgency erupted 20 months ago in the two-thirds of Kashmir India controls. Pakistan and India gave sharply conflicting accounts of the...

SRINAGAR, Aug 20 (1991): Kashmiri militants freed an Indian Oil Corporation executive on Tuesday nearly two months after he was kidnapped in exchange for six of their jailed colleagues, a government spokesman said. K. Doraiswamy, abducted at gunpoint on June 28 outside Srinagar, was released shortly after Indian authorities freed the six, including one militant charged in the kidnap-murders of three people last year. In the town of Baramulla, near the Pakistan border, Moslem separatists fought a running battle on...

SRINAGAR, Aug 19 (1991):Troops killed eight Moslem militants as they tried to enter the Kashmir Valley from Pakistani-ruled territory to join an anti-Indian revolt, senior police officials said on Monday. They said an army patrol intercepted a group of 10 militants who opened fire, seriously wounding two soldiers, in the border district of Kupwara on Sunday. The soldiers fired back, killed eight militants and recovered eight AK-47 assault rifles, they said. It was the only major incident in the district on Sunday,...

SRINAGAR, Aug 2 1991): Kashmiri militants holding an oil executive as a hostage said on Friday his fate had been decided after the government failed to meet a deadline for freeing seven jailed militants. The deadline for the killing of hostage K. Doraiswamy ran out at three p.m (0930 GMT) and a spokesman for Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen (Moslem Brotherhood) told journalists by telephone: "The fate of the hostage has been decided." The spokesman refused to say if Doraiswamy was dead or alive. Authorities bargaining for the...