SRINAGAR: An area commander of the outlawed Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front was among three JKLF activists who were arrested from the outskirts of Srinagar on Thursday while the Kashmir valley was rocked by a series of bomb explosions.
A bomb blast damaged the house of a National Conference member of the lower house Mohammad Shafi Bhat, in Rajbagh locality here. He was not present in the house at the time of the explosion.
Three activists of the banned JKLF, were arrested by the security forces from the outskirts of Srinagar, a police spokesman said. The details were not given.
Three blasts were reported from elsewhere in the valley the office building of the national sample survey at Baramulla, a hut of the State tourism development corporation near Harvan and a government office in the city were rocked by blasts.
A government school building in Mujgund in Sumbal, was gutted when some miscreants set it ablaze on Wednesday night.
Meanwhile, curfew was relaxed for 13 hours from 0530 hours for the second successive day on Thursday.
NEW DELHI: The government made it clear in the lower house that it was willing to talk to people of Jammu and Kashmir at every suitable opportunity and that there could be no negotiations with secessionist and anti-nationalist groups who challenge the constitution or the integrity and unity of India.
Minister of state for home affairs, Subodh Kant Sahay, said in reply to a written question of Chitta Basu that for any meaningful dialogue to take place militants had to be neutralised so that the people could breathe and speak freely and without fear of any reprisal from the “terrorists”.
The government was making all possible efforts to bring back normalcy to Jammu and Kashmir, he said.
The minister said with the coordinated action of the state police, the para military forces and the army, the authority of the state had become more visible.
He said it would be for the Jammu and Kashmir government to take a view in this regard.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 31, 1990
