JAMMU, June 25 (2007): Suspected separatist guerrillas threw a grenade at a security post in Indian Kashmir on Monday, wounding 15 people, two of them critically, police said. There has been a seasonal spurt in militant attacks across the disputed Himalayan region with the onset of summer, although overall violence levels are still considerably lower than in previous years, Indian officials say. Monday's attack took place in Doda, about 170 km (110 miles) northeast of Jammu, the state's winter capital. "Militants...

SRINAGAR, June 21 (2007): A former Kashmiri rebel was wounded when a tiny detonator planted in a cigarette by suspected militants exploded when he lit it up in a police station, a newspaper report said on Thursday. The small blast, the first of its kind in the revolt-torn Himalayan region, took place in a remote village of Doda district where Mohammad Rafiq had surrendered to police, the Daily Excelsior said. Separatist militants fighting Indian rule in the disputed region since 1989 frequently target their former...

SRINAGAR, June 19 (2007): Thousands of Kashmiri villagers attended the funeral on Tuesday of three militants killed by security forces in the biggest such turnout in more than a year, witnesses said. Police and soldiers shot the three members of the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba in a gun battle on Monday in Budgam district, west of Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, police said. More than 4,000 people joined the funeral procession, a Reuters witness said. It was the biggest turnout in a year and a...

SRINAGAR, June 4 (2007):The Indian army said on Monday it was abandoning a goodwill drive to repair old mosques in Kashmir, days after the region's top clerics threatened mass action if it did not stop the controversial programme. Clerics and separatist leaders of Kashmir, which is India's only Muslim-majority state, said last week only Muslims could do the job of renovating mosques and other Islamic shrines. The protests were sparked by reports in local newspapers about the army's mosque renovation drive. The...

SRINAGAR, June 1 (2007): Three policemen and eight suspected separatist militants were killed in explosions and gun battles across Kashmir, police said on Friday, as violence rose with the onset of summer in the troubled region. Two policemen were killed and six wounded after a grenade attack on a federal police camp in Kulgam district, south of Srinagar, summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state. Hours earlier, suspected militants set off a bomb in the heart of Srinagar, wounding at least 16 soldiers in an army bus....