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Though authorities managed to bring a tentative calm to Srinagar and nearby areas by enforcing a 24-hour curfew, the conflict threatened to pull India and its longtime enemy Pakistan into an explosive confrontation. The countries have already fought two wars over Kashmir, a predominantly Muslim territory that was divided between them when they gained independence from Britain in 1947. India has long accused Pakistan of arming and training rebels who want Kashmir either to form an independent state or to merge with Pakistan. But New Delhi has produced little convincing evidence of the allegation, which Islamabad denies...
...Vale of Kashmir, India's beautiful high mountain valley that is home to 4.6 million people, the vast majority of them Muslims. Passionate young men who want an independent Kashmir or union with neighboring Pakistan call for a general strike and demonstrations. The police in turn impose a curfew. Protesters start throwing stones, and frightened police respond with rifles. Last week 16 unarmed civilians died that way, while militants killed three policemen...
Sayeed, India's first Muslim Home Minister, has vowed to bring peace to his country's only predominantly Muslim state. Late last week the government did so by force, slapping a curfew on all major towns in the Kashmir valley...
...woman said she heard a voice over a shortwave radio say, "We've done it." At week's end the woman had been escorted out of the country by embassy officials and flown to the U.S. The murders were also carried out during the 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, when only the military is on the streets of the capital. "This was done by the military or by people closely allied to the military," says Arturo Rivera Damas, the Archbishop of San Salvador...
...half-hour before the 6 p.m. curfew, Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chavez, the Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, arrived at the hotel...