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/ 14 October 2009
India’s home minister said on Wednesday that pre-paid cellphones may be banned in Kashmir as concerns grow that they are impossible to trace.
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/ 9 February 2008
Twenty people were killed by avalanches and 15 others were missing in Indian Kashmir as the heaviest snowfall in recent years brought the Himalayan region to a standstill, officials said on Saturday. More than 300 people have been rescued from avalanche-hit areas, while many villages remained inaccessible, police said.
Hundreds of angry Kashmiri villagers paraded two Indian soldiers naked through the streets after they were ”caught trying to rape” a 17-year-old girl, witnesses and newspaper reports said on Wednesday. Police said they were investigating the incident, which took place late on Tuesday in Kunan, a village north of Srinagar.
A giant freshwater carp nicknamed the "tiger fish" for its great fighting abilities is set to return to the fast-flowing rivers of Indian Kashmir, officials say. Scientists have built a hatchery for breeding the mahseer and hope to restock the waters of Kashmir, known as an "angler’s paradise", although few foreign fishermen venture here now due to a deadly Islamic insurgency.
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/ 12 January 2007
Training camps for Muslim militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir are still functioning across the border in Pakistan, the Indian army said on Friday, ahead of talks between the two sides. Pakistan has long denied the existence of such camps and says it is doing all it can to stop the movement of militants into the Indian side of Kashmir.
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/ 27 September 2006
Police fired teargas shells in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday to quell violent protests over the planned execution of a Kashmiri man for his role in a 2001 militant attack on India’s Parliament. Hundreds of Kashmiri men took to the streets of Srinagar, the region’s main city, hurling stones at police and vehicles, burning tyres and blocking roads.
Seven tourists were killed and 35 people injured on Tuesday in a series of grenade attacks targeting holiday areas in the main city of revolt-hit Indian Kashmir, police said. In the bloodiest of the attacks blamed on Islamic separatist rebels, six tourists, including five women, were killed and 15 people wounded.
At least three tourists were killed and seven wounded on Thursday when a bomb planted by suspected Islamic rebels blew up a tourist bus in Indian Kashmir’s summer capital, police said. The attack came minutes after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ended a meeting in Indian Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar.
Indian troops sealed off large parts of Kashmir’s summer capital following random grenade attacks and murders ahead of a visit on Wednesday by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Combat troops backed up commandos and border guards in Srinagar, where residents in several districts found themselves corralled into ”sanitised zones” on Tuesday.
Survivors of the devastating earthquake that shook Kashmir three months ago are showing signs of hypothermia and frostbite, a doctor said on Monday, as temperatures plunged below zero. Survivors living in tents and tin shacks next to their ruined homes said they are also concerned about avalanches.
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/ 27 December 2005
Fisheries inspector Muntasir Rah beams proudly as he struggles to hold steady a net full of thrashing trout at a hatchery in insurgency-racked Indian Kashmir. And when peace finally returns to the revolt-hit Himalayan region, he hopes anglers from around the world will take the bait and come back to fish for what he calls his "brown beauties".
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/ 16 November 2005
Four people were killed and 45 wounded when a powerful car bomb triggered by Islamic rebels ripped through a busy intersection in the main city of Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, police said. The morning rush-hour blast in Srinagar left people bleeding on the road and turned vehicles into twisted wrecks.
Intense clashes between troops and Islamic militants holed up in the heart of Indian Kashmir’s summer capital of Srinagar continued into Saturday, leaving dozens of civilians trapped, police said. The fighting, which started on Friday, has left two security-force personnel dead and 20 others injured.
It is a five-hour journey through beautiful scenery in the northern foothills of the Himalayas. But when 20 passengers boarded two coaches under the snow-capped peaks in Srinagar last week, India’s state capital in Jammu and Kashmir, they were embarking on the world’s most dangerous bus trip. But a suicide attack the day before failed to halt symbolic journey through the divided nation.
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/ 24 February 2005
At least two police officers were killed on Thursday when heavily armed militants raided the administrative headquarters of Indian Kashmir, trapping about 250 civilians who were later freed by the security forces, officials said. A paramilitary officer said ”two or more” militants had sneaked into the fortified complex of government buildings.
Muslim separatist militants in Indian Kashmir narrowly missed a former state chief minister in a grenade attack as the revolt-hit state geared up for national elections, police said. Abdullah, whose National Conference party lost power in Kashmir in 2002, has survived at least three earlier attempts against his life.
About 60 people were injured on Monday when suspected Islamic rebels hurled a hand grenade that exploded in a crowded market near a bus terminal in Indian Kashmir, police said. The rebels tossed the grenade at a passing security force patrol in Pulwama, 30km south of the summer capital, Srinagar, a police spokesperson said.
Five people were killed and 51 injured in revolt-racked Indian Kashmir when Islamic rebels detonated a grenade to escape from a house where they had tried to abduct a civilian, police said on Wednesday. But witnesses said one of the men who entered the house west was working for Indian security forces.
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/ 22 October 2003
India has stunned Kashmiris with a range of surprise announcements — from agreeing to talk with separatist politicians to a proposed bus service connecting the portions of Kashmir controlled by India and Pakistan. Islamic militants have been fighting for the Indian state’s independence or merger with Pakistan since 1989.
Islamic guerrillas waged at least three attacks on Wednesday in the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, injuring three people, soon after Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee arrived for a national conference, police said.
Fifteen people were killed in a night of violence in Indian-administered Kashmir, two days ahead of the second round of voting for the state assembly, police said on Sunday.
More than 1 900 people have died in Kashmir’s vicious separatist struggle this year, including 136 people in the first half of August, official sources say.
Indian security forces shot dead seven Islamic militants in three separate overnight encounters in Indian-administered Kashmir, a police representative said on Friday.