SRINAGAR; Six militants were among seven persons killed and the brother of the adviser to the Kashmir governor, Hamidullah Khan, was kidnapped Thurs- day. Over the week, 93 persons lost their lives.
Thirty-five freedom fighters, including 24 trained militants, were captured during the period in the valley where Muslims are fighting for secession from India An official spokesman old reporters here Friday two militants were killed and 11 others were arrested during searches in Baramulla district. Ten AK 56 rifles, two pistols and two grenades were recovered, he said.
Elsewhere, security forces challenged three men in Baramulla district, who were trying to cross over to Pakistan. When they tried to escape, the security forces opened fire Killing two of them and capturing another.
Two militants were killed in border district of Kupwara while eight others apprehended Friday. Six AK S6rifles, two magazines, 102 rounds, one pistol with its two magazines and eight rounds and two grenades were recovered during searches.
An unidentified bullet-riddled body was recovered from Gund-Kangan, on the Srinagar-Leh-road.
Mohammad Shafi Khan, a driver with the state road transport corporation, was abducted around 1800 hours in the principal township of south Kashmir, Anantnag, 58 km from here, the sources said.
No organization has claimed responsibility for the abduction so far.
Shops and business establishments remained closed for the second successive day of the militant sponsored “bandh Friday and vehicles were off the roads,
A three- storey building and a private school building suffered damages in two fire incidents at Nowata and Lal Bazar Thursday night, official reports said.
Eight persons, seven of them militants, were killed and 19 suspects, including eight Pak-trained militants, arrested in Kashmir valley since Saturday evening
Six persons, two of them security men, were injured in grenade attacks militants in different parts of the city an official spokesman told reporters here on Sunday, Two militants were killed in an encounter in north Kashmir town of Baramlla Sunday, while four subversives who were trying to cross over to Azad Kashmir for arms training were shot.
Another militant killed in Baipur in an exchange of fire between activists of the Hizbul Mujahideen and the security forces, the spokesman said.
He said a headless body was recovered from a forest at Haihama in Kulwara district Saturday,
A security man and four persons were injured when militants threw a grenade on the security at Tankiporaund Sunday, the spokesman said.
A security man as wounded when militants attacked a security picket at Sumkachabalkhanyar Saturday night Bramulla district and arms seized from them on Sunday. A Pak-trained militant was nabbed in Kangan on the Tutskirt so of Srinagar on Friday with a pistol while nine suspected subversive elements were apprehended during search operations in Srinagar sector Saturday evening.
Seven persons, six of them militants, were killed as army and paramilitary forces in testified search operations overnight Fri day to trace the 11 persons held hostage by militants in the Kashmir valley of the volatile northern Indian border state of Jammu and Kashmir.
An official spokesman here said 50 suspects, 11 of them Pakistan trained militants, were arrested in the valley during the period
Col. Zaki Ahmad Khan, principal, Sainik School, Mansbal, who was kidnapped on November 4, was released by the militants on Friday evening after five days in captivity, Army and paramilitary forces intensified Search operations in 12 villages of central Bandipur from Aloosa to Kaloosa, in the South Kashmir district of Anantnag and Several villages of the north Kashmir town of Baramulla to trace the brother of the adviser to the state governor, Hamidillah, the brother-in-law of federal minister GIN Azad, sons of two former ministers, a French engineer, K C Gupta, a senior manager of a bank and Puran Anand Sharma, a deputy superintendent of the state police.
Another militant was shot dead in Lal Chowk area of the summer capital, Srinagah on Saturday afternoon, the spokesman said.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 15, 1991
