SRINAGAR, July 30 (1993): At least 25 people have been killed in the last few days in incidents involving separatist militants and security forces in India's northern Jammu and Kashmir state, police said on Friday. indian border guards shot and killed 13 militants as they attempted to cross the India-Pakistan frontier on Thursday, an Indian defence spokesman said. In Srinagar, the centre of a Kashmiri revolt against Indian rule, militants abducted a producer of the local television station on Friday, witnesses...

SRINAGAR, July 28 (1993): Kashmiri militants on Wednesday released all but one of 14 kidnapped policemen, but kept their rifles and radio equipment, officials said. Police and witnesses said one person was killed and 14 wounded, mostly civilians, in a fresh clash between security forces and Moslem separatists fighting Indian rule in the Himalayan region. The policemen were abducted on Tuesday while guarding a strategic bridge at Narabal, west of Srinagar. The pro-Pakistan guerrilla group Hezb-ul-Mujahideen said it...

SRINAGAR, July 27 (1993): Militants abducted 13 Indian policemen guarding a strategic bridge in violence-torn Kashmir, police said on Tuesday. They said the policemen were taken by surprise just after midnight at the bridge at Narabal, just west of the state capital Srinagar, without a shot being fired. The pro-Pakistan guerrilla group Hezb-ul-Mujahedin said it had seized the men, but made no immediate demands. The group vowed to step up attacks on Indian security forces this week after the paramilitary Border...

NEW DELHI, July 23 (1993):Security forces fighting Moslem separatists in Kashmir have killed 29 foreign mercenaries and caught 14 others in the troubled state, The Times of India newspaper reported Friday. The dead included 13 Afghans, two Bahrainis and 14 Pakistanis, The Times quoted intelligence sources as saying. The arrested included 12 Pakistanis, one Afghan and one Lebanese. Indian intelligence estimated the number of mercenaries from Islamic countries fighting alongside the Kashmiri militants at about 1,500,...

SRINAGAR, July 17 (1993):Security forces gunned down 16 Moslem rebels overnight in Kashmir, where police averted a disaster on Saturday by defusing a powerful bomb at the airport here. An army soldier and 13 Moslem guerrillas were killed in a fierce gunbattle late Friday on Kashmir's border with Pakistan, police sources said in this summer capital of the state. The rebels were trying to cross the border from Kashmir into Pakistan, a defence spokesman told the Press Trust of India (PTI). Two guerrillas, however,...

SRINAGAR, July 16 (1993):Troops killed nine Moslem militants, including two alleged rebel commanders, in Kashmir and 11 other people died in separatist-related violence in the northern state, officials said Friday. The latest deaths Thursday and Friday took to more than 200 the number of people killed this month in stepped-up violence in the state wracked by a Moslem secessionist drive. A defence ministry spokesman identified the two slain rebel leaders as commanders of Hizbul Mujahedeen and Al-Jehad Moslem factions...

SRINAGAR, July 13 (1993): A curfew was imposed in Srinagar, summer capital of Kashmir, Tuesday to thwart anti-India rallies by Moslem separatists as three more rebels died overnight in clashes across the northern state. Witnesses said police and paramilitary troops were deployed throughout the city to prevent a "pro-independence" demonstration called by Kashmiri Moslem rebels in memory of a similar uprising reported 62 years ago. They said policemen and border guards ringed the downtown Lal Chowk, or Red Square, to...

SRINAGAR, July 12 (1993):Border guards shot and killed 16 Kashmiri rebels as they attempted to cross the India-Pakistan frontier, police said on Monday. A police spokesman in Srinagar, the centre of the Kashmiri revolt against Indian rule, said at least 12 rebels were shot and killed on Sunday when they attempted to cross into India. Another four who were trying to escape into Pakistan were killed, also on Sunday, the spokesman said. India has long accused Pakistan of supporting the three -year-old insurgency in...

ISLAMABAD, July 8 (1993):- A Kashmiri militant leader called on Thursday for international pressure on India to end its "savagery" in suppressing a separatist revolt in the disputed Kashmir region. The Pakistan-based chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Amanullah Khan, said in a statement that Indian security forces had killed more than 200 Kashmiris in the past 10 days. Many of them were youths "shot dead or tortured to death in interrogation camps or killed on roads without any provocation", he...