NEW DELHI, April 30 (1992): Police have arrested seven Kashmiri militants here on suspicion of planning to assassinate Indian leaders in New Delhi, police said Thursday. They were taken to a maximum-security prison. Police caught the seven, who allegedly belonged to the Kashmiri militant Ikhwan-e-Muslimeen (Moslem Brotherhood) organisation, at a busy city intersection after a car chase. They were all armed. Police, who acted on a tipoff, alleged the seven planned to assassinate Indian leaders and blow up national...

SRINAGAR, April 28,  (1992):  A former minister in India's Kashmir state government was injured and his brother killed when they were fired at by gunmen, police said on Tuesday. Sheikh Muhammad Maqbool was injured and Sheikh Muhammad Iqbal was killed when they were attacked in the town of Baramulla on Monday night, police said. Baramulla is about 40 km (25 miles) west of Srinagar, the largest town in the Kashmir valley and the centre of a Moslem uprising against Indian rule. (For complete story write to...

SRINAGAR, April 27 (1992): More than 300 Kashmiri  militant prisoners in Kashmir are to be released immediately, it was announced here Monday. The decision was taken at an extraordinary meeting here earlier Monday of a screening committee, headed by Director General of Kashmir Police Balwinder Singh Bedi, a state government press statement said. (For complete story write to admin@freepresskashmir.com)

SRINAGAR, April 26 (1992): Nineteen people died Sunday in violence in India's troubled northern state of Kashmir, 11 of them in incidents triggered by a newspaper report that a hardcore militant had died in police custody. The Press Trust of India said nine people were killed in an explosion at Wasoora village in southern Kashmir, but it did not give details. Militants protesting a local newspaper report that their arrested leader, Javed Shalla, had died in custody called an indefinite general strike across the...

SRINAGAR, April 25 (1992): At least 11 people were killed on Saturday in fresh violence in Kashmir, where activists are fighting to end Indian rule, police said. Eight people were killed during a clash between secessionist militants and security forces at the village of Nyanyal, about 60 km (37 miles) from Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital and the centre of separatist insurgency. Three of the dead were militants and the rest civilians caught in the crossfire, police said. Security forces laid siege to Nyanyal after a...

ISLAMABAD, April 24(1992): Kashmiri demonstrators gave U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali a rough welcome as he arrived in Islamabad on Friday to join efforts to find a solution to the Afghanistan crisis. Shouting "Shame, shame", they blocked the U.N. chief's car as it left the airport but were beaten back by police with sticks, witnesses said. The demonstrators were protesting against remarks made by Boutros-Ghali that the United Nations could not involve itself in the Kashmir dispute between India and...

NEW DELHI, April 23, (1992): U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said on Thursday the United Nations cannot get involved in settling a four-decade dispute in Kashmir unless both India and Pakistan agree. The Himalayan territory, divided between India and Pakistan, has been disputed since both countries won independence from Britain in 1947. Militant groups in Indian-ruled Kashmir fighting for independence or merger with neighbouring Pakistan have demanded implementation of early U.N resolutions demanding a...

NEW DELHI, April 20 (1992): A hardcore Moslem militant in Kashmir escaped from police custody in the troubled valley Monday, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said. Noor Khan, deputy chief of the outlawed Jammu and Kashmir Libertion Front (JKLF), was undergoing treatment in police custody at the Soura Medical Institute in Soura township when he escaped, PTI said. "He (Khan) succeeded in giving the slip to the security guards posted at the institute where he was brought recently for treatment of a kidney ailment,"...

SRINAGAR, April 18 (1992): Two men abducted by separatist guerrillas in Indian-ruled Kashmir were freed on Saturday, one of them by a militant group that said it was taking a stand against kidnappings. The Hezbul Mujahideen group raided the hideout of another guerrilla group in the Kashmir valley to release Mohammad Shafi Qureshi -- elder brother of the Bihar state governor -- who was seized four days ago. A spokesman for Hezbul  Mujahideen said his group was opposed to the spate of kidnappings that has occurred in...