India’s foreign secretary S.K. Singh summoned Pakistani High Commissioner Bashir Khan Babar in New Delhi yesterday to present what the ministry said is new evidence that Islamabad is training separatists and stirring up anti-Indian sentiment in the Kashmir Valley, where three people died and two bombs went off yesterday in separatist attacks.
The nature of the new evidence ‘was not revealed.
Violence has become a near daily occurrence in Srinagar, 400 miles north of New Delhi and throughout the part of the mainly Muslim Kashmir Valley that is controlled by India.
Pakistan has repeatedly denied Indian allegations that it has trained and armed the militants, but it openly supports the pro-independence move in the Kashmir Valley.
Since an uprising began January 20 against the Hindu dominated New Delhi government, sources say, more than 100 people have died, mostly pro-secession protestors shot by security forces. The official death toll is less than 40.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 16, 1990
