JAMMU (PTI): As many as (290 people-105) of them militants and 29 securitymen were killed last month in India’s northern most state of Jammu and Kashmir, where Pak-trained Muslim militants are fighting for secession from India.
The month was also quite eventful as far as slate was concerned: There were firing and shelling’s resorted to by Pakistani troops in Palanwala sector of Jammu, a threatened march by the
Pakistan-based Jammu and jashmir Democratic alliance: to cross the LOC, all party delegation visit to valley an major administrative reshuffle in the govt.
Of the 290 people killed in the state, 251 were from Kashmir valley alone while the remaining 36 person lost their lives in Jammu region, 34 of them were killed i two passenger bus explosions at Digiana and Vijaypur.
Meanwhile, an official report from Srinagar, the summer capital of the state, said 16 people, including nine militants and two security personnel, were killed in separatist-violence in Kashmir valley Nov.3.
Security forces also nabbed 22 subversives in the valley Kashmir during the same period.
Eight militants, who were-trying: to sneak into India from Pakistan occupied Kashmir, were killed in an encounter with security forces in the curfew-bound five-km border belt in north Kashmir, an official spokesman said.
A militant was killed and a securitymen wounded in a gun battle during operations at Helmatpora in Kupwara.
In another encounter between the parliamentary border security forces and the civilians at Batmaloo in Srinagar on Tuesday, five persons including two BSF men, were killed while 10 others were wounded.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 13, 1992
