SRINAGAR, April 28 (1994): Envoys of 11 countries could not meet Kashmiri leaders on Thursday because the state government, citing security concerns, prevented them visiting the headquarters of an alliance of more than 30 political and religious groups. The All Party Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference in the strife-torn northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir had said earlier that its leaders would not meet the New Delhi-based envoys anywhere else but at their headquarters. The state government had insisted the meeting...

NEW DELHI, April 23 (1994) - Eighteen people, including 13 militants and a 14-year-old boy, were killed in Kashmir's anti-Indian uprising between Friday and Saturday, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said. The agency said troops handed the boy's body over to police after clashes between militants and security forces in the populous Batmaloo district of Srinagar, the summer capital of the mountainous northern state. Reporters from PTI, United News of India and Indian newspapers who were reporting on the violence were...

BONN, April 19 (1994): Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl expressed their hope on Tuesday that Islamabad's dispute with India over Kashmir could be resolved peacefully. Bhutto, on a four-day visit to Germany, informed Kohl of her efforts to find a solution in Kashmir, the divided Himalayan region at the root of two of the neighbours' three wars since independence in 1947, spokesmen for both sides said. The prime minister said the international community should put pressure on New...

SRINAGAR, April 18 (1994): Indian troops killed 10 Moslem militants and uncovered a huge arms cache during weekend raids in the northern state of Kashmir, an army spokesman said here Monday. Major Narinder Singh Salathia said the 10 guerrillas were killed and another 15 were arrested in several different incidents across the Himalayan state since Saturday. Salathia said the operation had yielded the largest haul this year of weapons and ammunition belonging to Moslem militants fighting Indian rule in...

JAMMU, April 16 (1994): Separatist militants set off a bomb on Saturday bomb close to the venue of a meeting addressed by a senior Indian politician near Jammu, winter capital of the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. They said no one was injured in the explosion. The meeting was addressed by George Fernandes, a opposition deputy and senior leader of the Janata Dal party in Doda town, 300 km (185 miles) from Jammu. Militants have stepped up attacks on political leaders in the...

NEW DELHI, April 14 (1994): Ten people, seven of them militants, were killed and a police station was torched by secessionists in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, Press Trust of India (PTI) said quoting officials. PTI said that three top militants belonging to the pro-Pakistan Hijbul Mujahideen were killed when the para-military Border Security Force personnel retaliated after they were fired at from a house in the Baramulla district. Two other militants of the Jammu and...

SRINAGAR, April 13 (1994): Fourteen suspected Moslem militants and three civilians died in an upsurge of overnight violence in the northern Indian state of Kashmir, police said here Wednesday. Two of the slain guerrillas were allegedly murdered in custody by Indian paramilitary guards in Baramulla, sparking anti-Indian protests in the northern Kashmiri district, residents said. Hundreds of local residents spilled into the streets of the town of Nourabad in Baramulla to protest the alleged custodial...

NEW DELHI, April 12 (1994): The Indian government is ready for peace talks with Kashmiri Moslem militants if they give up secessionist demands and accept Indian sovereignty, Home Minister Shankarrao Chavan said here Tuesday. "If (the rebels) are prepared to come for talks there is no objection," Chavan told reporters. But the guerrillas would have to give up their violent four-year-old campaign for an end to Indian rule over Kashmir before talks can begin, Chavan said in a reiteration of New Delhi's...

JAMMU, April 12 (1994) - India has sent more troops to a Hindu enclave in mainly Moslem Jammu and Kashmir state to quell a fresh wave of separatist violence, a government minister said on Tuesday. Minister of State for Home (Interior) Affairs Rajesh Pilot said after a tour of the violence-hit Doda region that an army base was to be set up in the area for the first time. Kashmir's Moslem separatists have frequently targeted the Jammu and Doda regions in their four-year-old battle for independence from Indian...