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...agony has ended," said a relieved Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the Home Minister in India's newly elected government, as he was reunited last week with his daughter Rubia. The 22-year-old medical intern had been kidnaped five days earlier by Muslim extremists agitating for the secession of Jammu and Kashmir state...
...government won the woman's freedom by capitulating to the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, which had demanded freedom for five comrades detained under antiterrorism measures. As news of the settlement spread, supporters of the pro-Pakistan J.K.L.F. thronged the streets of Srinagar, the state's summer capital, hoisting Pakistani flags and shouting slogans. When the crowd turned violent, seven people were killed in skirmishes with police, bringing the death toll to 85 over the past 16 months...
...stake is national prestige as well as control of Kashmir's northern reaches. Since gaining their independence from Britain in 1947, both countries have wanted the 85,805 sq. mi. of the state of Jammu and Kashmir as their own. In 1949 Pakistan and India signed the so-called Karachi Agreement, which drew a cease-fire line that ended at map coordinate NJ 9842, at the southern foot of the Saltoro Range. The negotiators did not extend the line because there had been no fighting in Kashmir's northernmost reaches, but merely mentioned that the line should continue "thence north...
...Indian border states of Jammu and Kashmir were placed under curfews today after pro-Pakistanis tried to set two bridges ablaze. Indian news reports said three people were killed and nine wounded by security forces when a crowd defied the curfew...
Indeed, so resounding were the setbacks that the victory by Gandhi's party, as the junior partner of a coalition, in the state of Jammu and Kashmir offered little consolation. In the past 18 months the Congress Party has lost state elections in Punjab, Assam and Mizoram. Gandhi appeared willing to live with these defeats because they temporarily quieted rebellious local ethnic and religious parties. There were, however, no such considerations in Kerala and West Bengal. Even more devastating, the loss of Kerala marked the first time Gandhi's party was out of power in all four south Indian states...