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India-Pakistan
Violence Erupts in Indian-Controlled Kashmir
2003-04-22
JPost Reg req'd - yeah, I know this is a re-usable headline
A bomb explosion in a community herding ground killed five civilians and injured 12 others Tuesday in Indian-controlled Kashmir, where separatist politicians have rejected talks with a government negotiator on the fate of the troubled Himalayan region.
17 injuries - good response
Police in Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu-Kashmir state, said soldiers and police killed 16 militants after surrounding two forest areas where they said they had received tips about guerrillas' presence.
16 killed is good news
The police said no security force troops were injured in the encounters. Eyewitnesses and police said that villagers were gathered early Tuesday to sell milk and put their cows out to pasture in nearby grasslands when a bomb hidden in a nearby wall along a dirt road exploded at the village of Khulgulshanpora.
That'll teach 'em..
The villagers "were gathered here preparing to leave for grazing the cattle when suspected militants detonated the explosive killing five villagers on the spot," said P.K. Bhardawaj the local police officer. Police said the explosive was apparently meant to target security forces who use the road. No group claimed responsibility. Police suspected separatist militants,
First guess?
who have been fighting for 13 years for mainly Muslim Kashmir's independence from predominantly Hindu India or its merger with Pakistan. The insurgency has claimed 61,000 lives.

In another incident, nine paramilitary soldiers were wounded when their truck drove over a land mine — laid by suspected rebels — in Lower Munda village, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Srinagar, police said. Also, an unidentified rebel was killed in a gunfight with soldiers in nearby Kuthar village, police added. The government negotiator, N.N. Vohra, is on a weeklong visit to Jammu-Kashmir, following Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's conditional offer Saturday to negotiate with Pakistan on Kashmir.
Ahah! That explains the timing of the festivities...
Vohra, a former Indian home secretary, said he would talk with pro-India groups and state lawmakers before trying to meet the separatist groups. "Doors for talks are fully open," Vohra told reporters as he left New Delhi on Sunday. But separatist politicians said Vohra did not have the mandate to discuss the issues they want to raise. "If he can declare that he is prepared to discuss the future dispensation of Jammu-Kashmir, only then a dialogue offer from him would merit our consideration," said Abdul Ghani Bhat, chairman of the separatist 23-party All Parties Hurriyat Conference.
Posted by:Frank G

#2  Yep,Afganiston will not settle down untill the NWFP is cleaned out,sounds like a job for 10thMountain Division and Nightstalkers.
Stage a raid and 15 minutes after"Boots on the Ground"U.S.&Karzi reps.tell Perv enterfere at your peirl.
Posted by: raptor   2003-04-23 07:31:03  

#1  Nothing's gonna change for the better in Kashmir -- or Afghanistan, for that matter -- until India waste Pakistan. Someone needs to put the fear of God into their rabid Islamic mobs.
Posted by: Ned   2003-04-22 12:38:49  

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