MUZAFFARABAD, July 30 (1992): After sharing the honours of victory in the Afghan war, thousands of radical Arab Moslems are looking for a new front to carry on their holy war. Unwanted at home, their next stop could be a short step across Pakistan to Kashmir where some Moslem militants say they hope the Arabs will join their jihad (holy war) against India. "If there is delay it is from us, not from them," says Ghulam Rasul Dar, general secretary of Hezb-ul-Mujahideen, one of the main Moslem militant groups fighting...

SRINAGAR, July 30 (1992): Kashmiri militants fired rocket-propelled grenades at the main government building in Srinagar, the state capital, on Thursday but missed their target and hit a tree, the state government reported. None of the various militant factions fighting against Indian rule of Kashmir claimed immediate responsibility. The civil secretariat, a symbol of New Delhi's authority over its only Moslem majority state, was attacked as the federal government claimed that the situation in Kashmir had improved in...

NEW DELHI, July 27 (1992): The Indian security forces cordoned off the area of Srinagar housing many top Kashmiri officials on Monday and searched their homes for militants, a senior Kashmiri official said. The official, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters by telephone from Indian-ruled Kashmir's summer capital that at least 18 young men were detained and taken away for questioning. Such cordon-and-search operations have been common elsewhere in Srinagar since January, 1990 when long-simmering discontent at...

NEW DELHI, July 19 (1992): Security forces shot dead 15 Moslem militants in Kashmir on Sunday after they entered the troubled northern state from Pakistan illegally, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported. The militants died in a gunbattle which erupted in Kashmir's Kupwara district when they refused to surrender to security forces, officials said. However, an unknown number of militants escaped back to the Pakistani-held part of Kashmir, PTI said. Security forces recovered 10 AK-47 rifles, four pistols, two...

SRINAGAR, July 11 (1992):Security forces were Saturday put on maximum alert in the Kashmir valley after militants asked Kashmiris to defy a curfew and join a mass religious procession planned for this weekend. Kashmir officials were discussing whether to continue the day-old curfew in this city on Sunday to permit a religious march to mark the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, officials said. The Press Trust of India (PTI) quoted official sources as saying Moslem militants and prominent...

SRINAGAR, July 10 (1992): Authorities imposed an indefinite curfew in the Kashmir city of Srinagar on Friday, a day after widespread street battles killed at least 13 people. Three paramilitary policemen were killed by Moslem separatist militants in the city on Thursday, government officials said. Two militants were killed in return fire and at least eight civilians died in crossfire, they said. Residents of the city said police went on the rampage after their three colleagues were killed and shot unarmed civilians...

SRINAGAR, July 9 (1992): Thousands of people marched through this Kashmiri city Thursday demanding independence, as guerrillas gunned down three border guards in a daring attack, witnesses said. Some 50,000 Shiites walked three kilometers (about two miles) in this militant stronghold, shouting slogans denouncing India, on the "martyrdom anniversary" of Imam Hussain, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed. Prominent Shiites addressed the marchers at the end of the noisy procession, warning the government not to disrupt...