SRINAGAR, July 31 (2006): Ten people, including seven Hindu pilgrims, were wounded on Monday in Indian Kashmir's main city when suspected Islamist militants threw a grenade at a bus, police said. The bus was carrying pilgrims on their way to the Amarnath shrine, a popular annual pilgrimage site in the mountains of Kashmir. It was attacked in Srinagar, the state's summer capital, senior police officer S.A. Mujtaba told reporters. The attack came as top diplomats from India and Pakistan were due to hold talks on the...

SRINAGAR, July 27 (2006):Suspected Muslim militants killed a teenage girl and wounded at least 28 people on Thursday in separate grenade attacks in Indian Kashmir, police said. One of the attacks was at the house of a former militant, Shabir Ahmad, in Doda district south of Srinagar, the summer capital of the Jammu and Kashmir state. "Shabir's 15-year-old sister died on the spot and five of his family members were injured," a police officer said. Earlier on Thursday, 13 civilians were wounded when militants threw a...

SRINAGAR, July 13 (2006): Holidaymakers are fleeing militants on tourists in the Himalayan region killed eight visitors, tour operators and officials said on Thursday. The famed houseboats on Dal lake, at the heart of the region's summer capital, Srinagar, are quiet, and normally packed flights are arriving with rows of empty seats as fears grow of a concerted campaign to scare off visitors. "Planes packed with tourists are flying from Srinagar to other parts of the country while those flying in are more than half...

SRINAGAR, July 12 (2006): At least five Indian tourists were wounded on Wednesday when suspected Muslim militants threw a grenade at a bus station in a resort in Indian Kashmir, police and witnesses said. The attack at Gulmarg came a day after a series of grenade explosions in Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, killed eight people, including seven tourists. Also on Tuesday seven bomb blasts on the rail system in Mumbai, India's financial capital, killed more than 180 people. The beautiful valley of Gulmarg, ringed...

SRINAGAR,  July 11  (2006): Suspected Islamist militants killed seven people, six of them tourists, on Tuesday in a series of grenade attacks in Indian Kashmir's main city, police said, the most concerted targeting of civilians in months. In the bloodiest strike, a grenade was thrown inside a bus in Srinagar, near the city's famous mountain-ringed Dal Lake, killing the six holidaymakers and wounding seven. Four other people were also hurt. A later blast at a tourist centre wounded six people. Two attacks took...

SRINAGAR, July 2 (2006): Troops shot dead four suspected Muslim guerrillas on Sunday as they tried to cross into Indian Kashmir from Pakistan, the second infiltration attempt to be foiled in past three days, the army said. An army spokesman said Sunday's bid took place in the border district of Baramulla, north of Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital and main city. Indian security forces say violence and infiltration has increased in recent weeks, as it does each year when summer melts snow in the Himalayan mountain...

SRINAGAR, July 1 (2006): Police in Indian Kashmir's main city fired teargas and water canons on Saturday to disperse thousands of demonstrators protesting the alleged killing of a shopkeeper by security forces Authorities said six policemen were injured in a clash. Angry protesters, shouting anti-India slogans, set fire to tyres and roadside police boothes and threw stones at police and government vehicles in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state. "Allah is great! We want freedom!" they shouted....