SRINAGAR, June 26 (1993): Five Kashmiri Moslems were died when set fire to their home in the Himalayan region, police and witnesses said on Saturday. They said men of the paramilitary Border Security Forces (BSF) torched the house in the southern Anantnag city in India's Jammu and Kashmir state on Friday following an attack on a security patrol. The authorities rushed more security reinforcements to impose strict surveillance and prevent mass protests which they anticipated after the incident. Thousands of mourners...

SRINAGAR, June 20 (1993):- Security forces killed 17 separatist militants and lost two of their own men in gunbattles in Kashmir at the weekend, police said on Sunday in Srinagar, the Indian state's summer capital. The clashes erupted in the Kupwara and Baramulla districts along the border with Pakistan after security forces intensified operations to flush out militants. Three civilians were also killed in separate incidents, the police said. The latest killings take the past week's death toll in separatist...

JAMMU, June 16 (1993): A court on Wednesday sentenced seven Border Security Force (BSF) troops to seven years in prison for gang raping a woman during an operation to flush out Moslem militants in the Kashmir valley. The seven border guards were also fined 1,000 rupees (33 dollars) each for the attack on the woman in Mallipora village in the northern Indian state, BSF officials said. The incident occurred in September 1991 when a contingent of BSF men raided Mallipora to force suspected Moslem secessionists out of the...

NEW DELHI, June 15 (1993): Indian security forces have launched their largest combined offensive against Moslem rebels in the strife-torn state of Kashmir, the Press Trust of India said Tuesday. A high-ranking state official told the news agency in Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, that the "biggest-ever joint operation" would restore normalcy and pave the way for polls by the end of the year, the first since 1987. "We are getting a positive response from people. The governmemt can control militancy and ensure free...

SRINAGAR, June 13 (1993): Thirteen Moslem militants were among 22 people slain in continuing violence in the Indian state of Kashmir, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Sunday. The Indian army shot dead five of the militants on Kashmir's border as they tried to sneak into the troubled state from Pakistan on Sunday, Kashmir police chief Balwinder Singh Bedi told the news agency. The five were shot when they refused to surrender, Bedi said. Army soldiers then recovered six AK-47 assault rifles, heavy weapons and...

NEW DELHI, June 11 (1993): State-owned radio resumed news broadcasts from insurgency-torn Kashmir on Friday, three years after it withdrew staff from the region when a television executive was killed by Moslem rebels. The United News of India said radio officials were being given security against attacks by the rebels, fighting to end the rule of predominantly-Hindu India on Moslem-majority Kashmir. State-owned radio and television networks shifted operations in Kashmir to the city of Jammu in 1990 after rebels killed...

SRINAGAR, June 10 (1993): The army was called in to maintain peace in Kashmir on Thursday after police killed one person and then two more at his funeral, officials said. An indefinite curfew has been clamped on Banihal town in south Kashmir to prevent further trouble, a government spokesman said in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state. Paramilitary policemen were fired on by Moslem rebels near Banihal on Wednesday and two troopers were injured, the official said. One person was killed in return...

SRINAGAR, June 8 (1993): Suspected Moslem separatists Tuesday abducted a top Moslem politician in the troubled Indian state of Kashmir, rebel and police sources said. Gunmen seized Sharief-Uddin Sharik, a former lawmaker, from the Lal Mandi area in Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir and urban hub of the militants, the sources said. None of the Moslem separatist groups claimed responsibility for the abduction. Sharik, 55, a senior member of the pro-India National Conference, was among the few party leaders...

SRINAGAR, June 7 (1993): A 100-year-old Hindu man was among 16 people killed in unabated violence across the strife-torn Indian state of Kashmir, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Monday. The Hindu, Pritam Nath, was among five civilians shot dead by Moslem rebels in separate attacks in the Kashmir valley Sunday, the news agency quoted officials as saying in Srinagar, the state's summer capital. It was not clear why Nath was killed. Indian security forces also killed nine militants in the state, while two...

SRINAGAR, June 6 (1993): Two Indian soldiers were among 13 people killed overnight in the strife-torn Indian state of Kashmir as an alert was sounded along India's border with Pakistan, officials said Sunday. A Kashmir government spokesman said a senior army officer was seriously injured and two soldiers died when a convoy of army troops was fired on by Kashmiri Moslem separatists in a village in north Kashmir late Saturday. The soldiers later set fire to the militants' hideout in Baramulla district killing at least...