NEW DELHI, Oct 6, Reuter: India accused Pakistan on Thursday of arming and training Kashmiris and sending them back to foment trouble in India’s only Moslem-dominated state.
A Government spokesman said more than 100 Kashmiri Moslems, many of them armed, had been detained in the past few days and had confessed during interrogation to being aided by Pakistan.
“They are armed and trained and supported in Pakistan by agencies of the Government,” said the external affairs ministry spokesman.
However, a police source in the Jammu and Kashmir Capital Srinagar said he knew of only 32 people being detained not 100.
India has repeatedly accused Pakistan of arming and training Kashmiri separatists and Sikh militants fighting for their own homeland in North India’s Punjab State.
Pakistan denies the charges and counters with accusations of Indian involvement in violence in its southern Sind province.
Pakistan and India have twice gone to war over Kashmir since independence from Britain in 1947 and skirmishes still erupt along the ceasefire line between the two armies.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 14, 1988
