Srinagar: Militants abducted a senior staff member of the federal government and attacked security forces in continuing violence in India’s turbulent Kashmir valley on Wednesday night. A.K. Dhar Director of the Regional Research Lab Rawalpora was abducted by activists of the Ikhwan-Ul-Muslimeen from Rawalpora while on his way to work a spokesman said.
Ikhwan-Ul-Muslimeen a pro-Pakistan militant group claimed responsibility for the act. Militants also made an attempt to kidnap a police officer at Banihal 125km from Srinagar. They failed when the officer raised an alarm and his neighbors came to his rescue.
Sixty suspected subversives including eighteen militants belonging to the outlawed Hizbul Mujahideen Al-Jehadand Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front were nabbed in an anti-militant drive on Thursday
Article extracted from this publication >> January 24, 1992
