SRINAGAR, March 31 (1992):  A man threw a grenade into the office of a local BBC reporter in this northern Indian city Tuesday, but the journalist escaped unhurt, police said. The unidentified youth walked into the office of Yusuf Jameel and threw a grenade before fleeing, causing minor damage to the entranceway, they said. The attack follows a similar incident in which a grenade was thrown into Jameel's home on February 19. No one was injured in that incident. Nobody has claimed responsibility...

MUZAFFARABAD, March 31 (1992): Pakistani troops began withdrawing Tuesday after the second abortive bid this year by the militant Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) to cross the border into India, witnesses here said. Pakistani authorities had banned the march and deployed some 10,000 police and paramilitary forces on this side of the Line of Control dividing disputed Kashmir to foil the plan. They arrested several hundred people inluding top JKLF leaders in a massive crackdown. The...

SRINAGAR, March 31 (1992): An unidentified man threw a hand grenade at the house of Kashmiri reporter Yusuf Jameel on Tuesday while he was inside with visitors. It was the second attack on him in two months, said Jameel, 33, a freelance correspondent for Reuters and the British Broadcasting Corporation. No one was hurt in the explosion, which shattered window panes. Jameel said he was speaking to some visitors when he saw a man enter the compound of his...

MUZAFFARABAD, March 30 (1992): Pakistan and India both pledged to halt, at gunpoint if necessary, a march by Kashmiri militants on Monday on the ceasefire line dividing the disputed Himalayan valley. But the militant Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) vowed to defy the ban on the march and said it had already infiltrated activists into the Chinari area about 10 km (six miles) from the frontier at Chakothi. The premier of Pakistan's Azad (free) Kashmir,...

SRINAGAR, March 29 (1992): The Indian army is prepared to fire on militants based in Pakistan who are threatening to cross a tense ceasefire line dividing Kashmir, the governor of Indian-ruled Kashmir said on Sunday. "It is always a very unpleasant thing to do -- start shooting at people," Governor Girish Saxena told Reuters at his heavily fortified residence in Srinagar, summer capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir state. "But the troops have their orders. The...

ISLAMABAD, March 28 (1992): Pakistan said on Saturday it would halt at all costs a "suicidal" march by Kashmiri militants against heavily-defended Indian army positions. "We are determined to stop the people from committing suicide," Azad (free) Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Abdul Qayyum said following a federal government ban on Monday's planned march by the pro-independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). Speaking by phone from the Azad Kashmir...

SRINAGAR, March 23 (1992) - Thousands of Kashmiris chanting pro-independence and Islamic slogans staged a massive anti-Indian protest here Monday as they buried five Moslem militants slain by security forces. The protest, the biggest in Kashmir for several months, coincided with an announcement by the state's leading pro-independence group that its activists would march on the Pakistani-held northern third of Kashmir next Monday. The demonstration was staged as the Indian army laid siege to a women and children's...

ISLAMABAD, Feb 15 (1992): The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front decided Saturday to attempt another march into Indian-held Kashmir on March 23, its chief Amanullah Khan announced after a meeting by a special JKLF committee. "We have consulted our friends and they have decided to cross the border en masse on March 23, 1992," exactly two years after the death of the JKLF's commander-in-chief Ashfaq Majid Wani, who was killed by the Indian troops in Srinagar, he said. The decision was taken by a special commitee of the...

SRINAGAR, March 21 (1992): Indian security troops on Saturday killed nine secessionist militants in a fierce clash in a border district of the Kashmir valley, police said. They said the militants of the Mujahideen group were killed after they tried to ambush a security patrol party at Handwara in the Kupwara district of the valley. A spokesman for the Mujahideen, one of several groups fighting to end Indian rule in the Himalayan valley, told journalists by...

ISLAMABAD, March 18 (1992): Pakistan said on Wednesday it was trying to dissuade militants from making a second attempt to cross into Indian-ruled Kashmir. The first attempt last month ended when Pakistani security forces, anxious to prevent a confrontation with India, opened fire and killed at least seven supporters of the militant Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). The JKLF plans to make its second attempt to cross the border on March 30 to show...