New Delhi: Kashmiri separatists abducted seven Indian army recruits yesterday and reportedly Killed at least ‘one of them in Jammu Kashmir state.
A group of armed men seized the recruits after stopping their bus nine miles from Srinagar, the state’s summer capital, Press Trust of India reported. The body of one of the soldiers was Inter found in a field, the news agency said, The fate of the others was unknown. In the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, a powerful Kashmiri secessionist organization accused the Indian government yesterday of orchestrating the kidnapping of the Western hostages—one is an American—in an attempt Lo vilify the separatists. ‘Ghulam Mohammed Safi, secretary’ general of the powerful All Parties, Hurriyat Conference, an umbrella, group for Kashmiri professional and political organizations, called the kidnappings “a drama staged by Indian intelligence agents to malign Kashmiri freedom fighters.”
Article extracted from this publication >> August 25, 1995
