SRINAGAR, May 30 (1992):- Militant activists Saturday freed Ayaz Ahmad Malik, an official of All India Radio (AIR), from a rival Kashmiri militant group in the second such incident this week, a government spokesman said here. The spokesman said Malik, a senior assistant director of AIR's engineering wing in Srinagar, was freed by the outlawed Jammu and Kashmir Students Liberation Front from the Al Umar mujahedeen, who had held him for five days. On May 26, a second AIR official, Ghulam Hassan Zia, was freed by the...

SRINAGAR, May 29 (1992): Kashmiri militants killed a Moulim family of five including two teenaged girls in Kashmir's Tangdhar border area early Friday, police officials said here. The officials said the girls, their father Fatehuddin, mother Musmati and 23-year-old brother were killed early in the morning but gave no further details. None of the militant groups waging a bloody secessionist war in Kahmir, India's only Moslem-majority state, claimed immediate responsibility for the killings, which brought to 16 the...

ISLAMABAD, May 27 (1992): Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday predicted early severance of Kashmir from India following the success of the mujahideen rebels in Afghanistan. "Now it is Kashmir's turn for liberation," he said. "Kashmir will God-willing join Pakistan when it is liberated," Nawaz Sharif told a dinner hosted by Sardar Abdul Qayyum, premier of Pakistani-ruled Azad (free) Kahmir. "Kashmiris want to accede to Pakistan. They don't want accession with anywhere else. They don't want to go with...

SRINAGAR, May 26 (1992): An All-India Radio official, kidnapped by militants 81 days ago, was freed on Tuesday in Indian-ruled Kashmir where at least 13 people have been killed in renewed separatist violence, police said. A spokesman for the Hezb-ul Mujahideen said on Tuesday its fighters had rescued All-India Radio's assistant director in Kashmir, Gulam Hassan Zia, who was being held by another guerrilla group. Zia was kidnapped on March 7 by the little known Islamic Revolutionary Front, who had demanded the release...

SRINAGAR, May 15 (1992):Security forces captured Mushtaq Zargar, one of the top militants fighting New Delhi's rule of Himalayan Kashmir, on Friday, prompting a day of militant attacks in which at least seven people were killed. Victims in fighting that began at first light and continued into the evening included two paramilitary troopers killed when militants stormed their sandbagged bunker, and a woman caught in the crossfire, police said. One witness said he saw one man shot in the back and killed after...

SRINAGAR, May 14 (1992):Security men killed eight Moslem militants in Jammu and Kashmir state when they tried to cross the Himalayan border with Pakistan, officials said on Thursday. They said security forces also shot and wounded six militants on the border and arrested another six when they tried to sneak into Indian-ruled part of Kashmir. Two-thirds of Kashmir is ruled by New Delhi as Hindu India's only Moslem majority state, and the rest by Islamabad. India accuses Pakistan of arming and training the Moslem...

ISLAMABAD, May 13 (1992): Pakistan accused Indian forces Wednesday of attacking civilians on its side of the border in Kashmir and injuring three people in a series of incidents this week. Reports quoting officials in Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, earlier said one civilian was killed and a dozen others injured when Indian security forces allegedly shelled a border township Wednesday. Many houses were said to have been badly damaged in the incident at Samahani, about 200 kilometers (120 miles)...

SRINAGAR, May 27 (1992): Security forces arrested two young women in this Kashmir city Wednesday after they threw coloured water on unveiled women, police and witnesses said. Federal paramilitary soldiers dragged the two 17-year-olds out of a scooter-taxi in which they were travelling through a fashionable district, splashing the water, police sources said. The two were were identified as members of the outlawed "Daughters of the Nation" group, which has been attacking unveiled women since the expiry of its May 12...

NEW DELHI, May 6,(1992): India has dropped Kashmir, one of its most popular tourist attractions before it erupted into separatist revolt, from a new list of destinations to be promoted by the government. "Unless normalcy returns to the valley we cannot take the risk of sending tourists to Kashmir," Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Madhav Rao Scindia told a news conference late on Tuesday. "Conditions there are disturbed and tourist arrivals have fallen from 70,000 foreigners three years ago to just about 2,000...

SRINAGAR, May 5 (1992): An Indian federal minister escaped narrowly Tuesday when Moslem separatists fired at his convoy in Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar, officials here said. At least four of the attackers were shot dead by Minister of State for Telecommunications Rajesh Pilot's guards, who returned the fire after the ambush in Nowpora area, an official spokesman said. Pilot was returning from Lal Bazar district after visiting victims of a house collapse Monday that killed at least 80 people and injured more than...