JAMMU, June 29 (2003): Nine people including an Indian army major have been killed and a civilian injured in violence since Saturday evening across India's revolt-wracked Jammu and Kashmir state, police said. The killings come a day after two suspected Muslim separatists stormed an army camp on the outskirts of the Himalayan state's winter capital Jammu and killed 12 soldiers before being shot dead themselves. That was one of the worst attacks since India and Pakistan began easing tensions over the region in April....

JAMMU, June 28 (2003): Two suspected Muslim separatists stormed an army camp in Indian Kashmir on Saturday, killing 12 soldiers before being shot dead, a defence official said. In one of the worst attacks since India and Pakistan began easing tensions over the region in April, the pair lobbed grenades and fired automatic weapons after cutting their way through barbed wire into the camp as most of the soldiers slept. The pre-dawn assault, in which seven soldiers were also injured, came as President Abdul Kalam was on...

SRINAGAR, June 23 (2003): Five civilians, including three members of one family, were killed and 37 wounded on Monday in separate attacks by suspected Muslim rebels in Indian Kashmir, security officials said. A grenade attack on a crowded market in Shopian, about 50 km (30 miles) south of Srinagar, summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state, killed at least two civilians and wounded 36, a paramilitary official said. It was the third grenade attack in four days in the Himalayan region. Thirty people were injured in two...

SRINAGAR, June 23 (2003): Sixteen people have been killed and 40 wounded in Indian Kashmir in one of the worst 24 hours of violence since India and Pakistan began a tentative peace process in April. At least two civilians died and 36 were wounded on Monday when suspected rebels threw a grenade at a crowded market in Shopian, south of Kashmir's main city, Srinagar, a paramilitary official said. It was the third grenade attack in four days. Thirty people were injured in two grenade attacks on Friday. Police said...

SRINAGAR, June 13 (2003): Two soldiers were killed and five wounded when their vehicle ran over a landmine in the disputed region of Kashmir, police said on Friday. About a dozen separatist Muslim militant groups have been battling Indian security forces in Kashmir since 1989 but no group claimed responsibility for the blast on Thursday at Wangam village south of Srinagar, Kashmir's main city. "The vehicle was completely damaged in the mine explosion. Two soldiers died on spot and five were injured," a police official...

SRINAGAR, June 9 (2003): Three people were hurt when police opened fire in Kashmir on Monday to disperse hundreds of demonstrators protesting against alleged rights violations by soldiers, police and witnesses said. They said at least 2,500 angry Muslims gathered near Shopian town south of Srinagar, saying soldiers had "misbehaved with two school girls" in a bus during frisking. Authorities say they are investigating the incident. "Three people, including a nine-year-old boy, were wounded in the firing. We are...

SRINAGAR, June 6 (2003): Eighteen people including 13 Muslim rebels have been killed in a fresh upsurge of separatist violence in Indian Kashmir, army and police said on Friday. Violence has spiralled in Kashmir despite Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee making a new bid for peace with nuclear-armed rival Pakistan in April. The South Asian neighbours have fought two of their three wars over the disputed region. An army spokesman said soldiers had killed eight militants in a fierce gunbattle in Pulwama...

SRINAGAR, June 5 (2003): Five civilians were killed in Indian Kashmir when Pakistani troops fired artillery shells and mortar bombs across a ceasefire line dividing the disputed region, Indian police said on Thursday. It was the highest number of Indian civilians killed in Pakistani fire since Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee called for talks with Pakistan during a visit to Indian Kashmir on April 18. "According to early reports, one civilian was killed in Uri and four in Kern," a police officer said,...

MUZAFFARABAD, June 3 (2003): Pakistan said on Tuesday that at least nine people were killed and six were wounded by Indian firing into Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. Captain Sabtain Rizvi, a military spokesman in Pakistani Kashmir, accused Indian forces of opening fire on a jeep carrying civilians in the Neelam Valley, 90 km (56 miles) northeast of Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistani Kashmir. "The heavy firing killed nine people on the spot and wounded another six," Rizvi said. "We have responded effectively to Indian...

JAMMU, June 3 (2003): A 17-year-old Pakistani student fought with his parents, left home in a huff and cycled undetected across the highly militarised border into Indian Kashmir, police said on Tuesday. The student, a resident of Pakistan's border district of Sialkot, was arrested after an Indian villager reported him to police. He will be returned to Pakistan after his identity is verified by Pakistani border guards, police said. "He seems to have lost his way and crossed over to this side cycling through fields and...