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48Mil BC Indohyus, a creature about
the size of a raccoon, lived about this time and spent much of its time
in the water. Fossils of Indohyus were later unearthed in Kashmir and
revealed evolutionary similarities to what later developed into the
earliest whales and dolphins.
(SFC, 12/20/07, p.A23)
c1890 A maharajah decreed that
that no non-Kashmiri could buy land. The British went on to establish
villages on water.
(SFC, 4/29/00, p.D4)
1947 Aug 15, India gained
independence after some 200 years of British rule. Prior to
independence, 565 princes ruled a third of India. After independence
the government let the royals retain their titles and assets in return
for incorporating their principalities into the new nation.
Independence in Pakistan and India led to bloody conflicts and
thousands died.
(WSJ, 1/9/95, A-8)(TMC, 1994, p.1947)(WSJ, 12/21/95,
p.A-12)(WSJ, 5/16/96, p.A-10)(SFEC, 8/3/97, p.A15)(AP, 8/15/97)
1947 Oct 27, The Hindu maharajah
of Muslim-majority Kashmir joined India. The accession, not recognized
by Pakistan, led to a war.
(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.A22)(SFC, 6/8/02, p.A20)
1947 Nov 2, Jawaharlal Nehru said:
"We have declared that the fate of Kashmir is ultimately to be decided
by the people. That pledge we have given, and the Maharaja has
supported it not only to the people of Kashmir but the world. We will
not, and cannot back out of it. We are prepared when peace and law and
order have been established to have a referendum held under
international auspices like the United Nations. We want it to be a fair
and just reference to the people, and we shall accept their verdict. I
can imagine no fairer and juster offer."
(http://tinyurl.com/8sovl)
1947 A force of Wazirs and Mehsuds
was dispatched to seize Kashmir for the newly formed Islamic republic
of Pakistan, sparking the first Indo-Pakistan war.
(Econ, 1/2/10, p.17)
1948 May, India and Pakistan went
to war over the Himalayan region of Kashmir, which was divided between
the two nations at partition. The Pakistani third was known as Jammu
and Kashmir, while India controlled the eastern two-thirds where 8
million people lived. The region was mostly Muslim.
(SFEC, 8/3/97, p.A15)(WSJ, 5/22/98, p.A15)(WSJ,
10/12/01, p.A1)
1949 Jan 1, The UN brokered a
cease-fire in Kashmir. It granted Kashmir the right to vote on whether
to remain in India or to join Pakistan. No vote took place.
(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.A22)(SFC, 6/8/02, p.A20)
1954 Ardito Desio (d.2001 at 104)
of Italy organized the 1st expedition to reach the top of K2, the
world’s 2nd highest peak.
(SFC, 12/14/01, p.A33)
1962 Oct 20, A Chinese army landed
in India for a brief border war in the Himalayas. The northeast Indian
state of Arunachal Pradesh, twice the size of Switzerland, was occupied
in a week-long assault by China and closed to foreign tourists, due to
the border war. Some 3,000 Indian officers and men were killed. China
gained control from India of the northeast region of Kashmir known as
Aksai Chin. Arunachal Pradesh re-opened in 1993.
(WSJ, 5/16/96, p.A-10)(SFC, 11/29/96,
p.A1)(http://countrystudies.us/nepal/19.htm)(SSFC, 12/30/01,
p.A22)(SSFC, 1/4/04, p.C10)(Econ, 7/5/08, p.95)(Econ, 8/21/10, p.17)
1965 Aug 6, Indian troops invaded
Pakistan. Indo-Pakistani fighting spread to Kashmir and to the Punjab,
The 2nd Indo-Pakistani conflict started without a formal declaration of
war. Skirmishes with Indian forces started as early as August 6 or 7.
(http://ph.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0858805.html)(MC, 8/6/02)
1965 Sep 6, India and Pakistan
began a second war over Kashmir. Pakistan paratroopers raided Punjab.
It ended in a cease-fire that left India with control of two-thirds of
Kashmir.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A12)(SFEC, 8/3/97, p.A15)(HN,
9/6/98)(SFC, 6/8/02, p.A20)
1971 Dec 17, A cease fire began
between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.
(MC, 12/17/01)
1972 Jul 2, India and Pakistan
signed the Simla Agreement that provided for a bilateral settlement of
disputes and a "Line of Control" in Kashmir. Article 6 of the accord
clearly states: "Both governments agree... to discuss further the
modalities and arrangements for the establishment of durable peace and
normalization of relations," including "a final settlement of the Jammu
and Kashmir."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimla_Agreement)(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.A22)
1981 Asiya Andrabi founded
Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the Faith) in Indian administered
Kashmir. The group supported terrorism and was banned by the Indian
government from 1990-2004. In 2007 it was running 75 part-time
madrassas in Kashmir.
(Econ, 4/14/07, p.46)
1984 Feb, Ravindra Mhatre, India's
deputy high commissioner in Britain, was murdered in Birmingham,
England. A group calling itself the Kashmir Liberation Army claimed
responsibility and demanded a ransom of 1 million pounds ($1.84
million) and the release of political prisoners in India. The Indian
government hanged Maqbool Butt, a leading Kashmiri dissident it had
been holding in jail. In 2004 Mohammed Aslam (49) was charged with the
kidnap, false imprisonment and murder of Mhatre.
(AP, 11/4/04)
1988 The Jammu and Kashmir
Liberation Front (JKLF) set off 2 bomb blasts in Srinagar. Pakistan
allowed JKLF fighters to be trained in Azad Kashmir (the Pakistan
controlled section of Kashmir).
(WSJ, 1/21/02, p.A10)
1988 Pakistan's main spy agency
(ISI) gave military training to Kashmiri rebels (JKLF) battling
security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir. ISI training ended in
1989. The information was only made public in 2005 by JKLF leader
Amanullah Khan in the 1st volume of his Urdu-language biography
"Jehed-e-Musalsal" (Continuous Struggle).
(Reuters, 6/17/05)
1989 Nov, Rebellion erupted in
India-held Kashmir and small arms sniping between Indian soldiers and
rebels became routine. Many of the Islamic separatists trained in
Pakistan. By 2007 over 68,000 people dead due to the insurgency.
(SFC, 6/12/99, p.A12)(SFC, 6/8/02, p.A20)(SSFC,
12/2/07, p.A17)
1989 Javed Hussain Shah completed
6 months of training in Afghanistan and led a Kashmiri insurgent group
later dubbed the Jihad Force. He fought along with al-Qaida members and
later became a Kashmiri legislator.
(SSFC, 6/23/02, p.A13)
1989-2002 Some 6,000 people disappeared in
Indian-Kashmir over this period. Violence over this time claimed some
60,000 lives.
(SFC, 9/27/02, p.A16)
1990 Jan, India opened fire in
Kashmir. Over 30,000 people were killed over the next 12 years.
(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.A22)
1990 Jul, India’s 1958 Armed
Forces Special Powers Act, was extended to Kashmir. It allowed soldiers
to search houses without warrants and shoot anyone suspected of being a
terrorist.
(http://tinyurl.com/27uour9)(Econ, 9/18/10, p.58)
1990-2001 Over 1,000 Jammu-Kashmir civilians were
killed by land mines over this period along with nearly 9,000 injuries.
(SSFC, 1/13/02, p.A18)
1993 Javed Hussain Shah led the
Kashmiri insurgent Jihad Force and fought along with al Qaeda members.
Shah later became a Kashmiri legislator.
(SSFC, 6/23/02, p.A12)
1995 Jul, Four hostages: Donald
Hutchings, Keith Mangan, Paul Wells and Dirk Hasert were seized by
Kashmir guerillas, who call themselves Al Faran. In May ‘96 a Muslim
insurgent, who claimed to have been involved, said the men were killed
and buried in the mountains in Dec. The captured rebel Nasir Mehmood
said in a police report that the hostages were killed Dec 13, 1995 by
guerrillas of Harkat-ul-Ansar, a group based in Pakistan. The Al Faran
name was coined to confuse Indian authorities. The Harkatul Mujahedeen
kidnapped the tourists.
(SFC, 5/27/96, p.A6)(SFC, 12/23/96, p.A12)(SFC,
4/8/98, p.A12)(WSJ, 10/12/01, p.A6)
1995 Aug 13, Hans-Christian Ostro,
a 27-year-old Norwegian who had come to India to study dance was found
dead in the Pahalgam district with his severed head balanced between
his thighs, close to the sight of a previous kidnapping by Kashmir
guerillas.
(SFC, 5/27/96, p.A6)
1996 Mar, Jaleel Andrabi, a
Kashmiri human rights lawyer, disappeared in Srinagar at the height of
an anti-India uprising. His body was recovered 19 days later in a local
river. He had been shot in the head and his eyes gouged out. Avtar
Singh, a major in the Indian army, fled the country after he was
accused of killing Andrabi. India called for Singh’s extradition after
his location was discovered following his Feb 21, 2011, arrest in
California in a domestic violence case.
(AP, 3/1/11)
1996 Osama bin Laden established
training camps for Kashmir fighters in Khost, Afghanistan.
(WSJ, 10/12/01, p.A6)
1997 Jul 7, Abdul Rashid Wani (30)
disappeared in Srinagar, Kashmir, while running an errand on the day of
his niece’s wedding.
(SSFC, 12/2/07, p.A17)
1998 Jan, Masked gunmen killed 23
people in a village near Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and
Kashmir.
(SFC, 6/20/98, p.D1)
1998 Apr, Suspected separatist
guerrillas shot and killed 29 Hindus in the Jammu and Kashmir region.
(SFC, 6/20/98, p.D1)
1998 Jun 19, Suspected separatist
guerrillas shot and killed 25 male members of 2 Hindu wedding parties
in Jammu and Kashmir state.
(SFC, 6/20/98, p.D1)
1998 Aug 10, Fighting in Kashmir
resumed and 19 people were reported killed in battles between Indian
security forces and Pakistan-backed separatist rebels.
(WSJ, 8/11/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 19, In Pakistani
controlled Kashmir Indian artillery fire killed 9 people and wounded 11
others over the last 2 days.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, p.A17)
1999 Jan 19, Indian and Pakistani
troops clashed in Kashmir and 4 Pakistani soldiers were killed.
(WSJ, 1/20/99, p.A1)
1999 Feb, The Pakistan Army began
to re-occupy the posts it had abandoned on its side of the Line of
Control in the Kargil region, but also sent forces to occupy some posts
on the Indian side of the LOC. Pakistani army chief Gen. Musharaff sent
troops there without informing PM Nawaz Sharif.
(Econ, 6/19/10, p.46)
1999 May 27, India lost 2 fighter
jets, a MiG-21 and a MiG-27, to Pakistani fire on the Pakistani side of
Kashmir. Pakistan promised to return one dead pilot and to hold the
other as hostage.
(SFC, 5/28/99, p.A12)
1999 May 28, In the Kashmir border
conflict Muslim guerrillas shot down an Indian helicopter and 4 Indian
soldiers were killed. Pakistan offered to hold peace talks with India.
(SFC, 5/29/99, p.A10)(SFC, 5/31/99, p.A10)
1999 May 30, In Kashmir Indian
fighter jets pounded militants in the Kargil sector for the 5th day.
(SFC, 5/31/99, p.A10)
1999 Jun 2, In Kashmir Islamic
guerrillas rejected India's offer of safe passage out of the battle
zone.
(SFC, 6/3/99, p.C4)
1999 Jun 12, India and Pakistan
met for talks on Kashmir with little success as each blamed the other
for the insurgency.
(SFEC, 6/13/99, p.A13)
1999 Jun 16, Pakistan admitted
deep involvement on the Kashmir border war with India.
(SFC, 6/17/99, p.C3)
1999 Jun 29, In Kashmir Indian
fighters raided 13 guerrilla positions at Point 4700 and at least 40
people were killed, 25 of them Indians.
(SFC, 6/30/99, p.A9)
1999 Jul 2, The Pakistani army
reported that 58 Kashmiri civilians had been killed and 158 wounded
over the last 2 month by Indian shelling.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A9)
1999 Jul 4, Pakistani PM Nawaz
Sharif met with Pres. Clinton and announced that it would abandon its
seized positions in Kashmir. Meanwhile India claimed a victory at Tiger
Hill.
(SFC, 7/5/99, p.A8)
1999 Jul 6, In Kashmir fighting
continued despite a US-Pakistan pact to push for peace. India reported
55 mercenaries killed along with 9 Indian soldiers.
(SFC, 7/7/99, p.A10)
1999 Jul 10, In India the prime
minister said most of the Pakistani soldiers had been cleared out of
the Indian side of Kashmir.
(SFEC, 7/11/99, p.A26)
1999 Jul 11, In India and Pakistan
top commanders agreed to the withdrawal of Islamic militants from
Kashmir along with a complete cease fire.
(SFC, 7/12/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 13, Islamic militants of
the United Jihad Council said they would change positions but not pull
out of the disputed region.
(WSJ, 7/14/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 20, 20 Hindus were killed
in 3 separate incidents by Muslim insurgents.
(SFC, 7/21/99, p.C2)
1999 Jul 27, A bomb in
Pakistan-ruled Kashmir killed 7 people and injured 40 when it exploded
on a bus in the Kotli district.
(WSJ, 7/28/99, p.A1)
1999 Aug 4, In Kashmir 4 days of
fighting left at least 50 people dead including 32 militants and 7
Indian soldiers.
(SFC, 8/6/99, p.A16)
1999 Aug 6, Violence in Kashmir
left 32 dead.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A12)
1999 Aug 14, Separatist rebels in
India killed at least 7 people in Kashmir and Assam attacks on Pakistan
Independence Day.
(WSJ, 8/16/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 1, In Kashmir Pakistani
soldiers attacked Indian posts over the last 2 days and left 22
soldiers dead.
(SFC, 9/2/99, p.A16)
1999 Oct 25, In Kashmir Indian
troops killed 4 Pakistani soldiers with artillery and small arms in the
mountainous Uri sector.
(SFC, 10/27/99, p.C2)
1999 Oct 28, In Kashmir separatist
militants fired 6 rocket-propelled grenades at the main government
building in the capital and 3 people were killed and 28 injured.
(SFC, 10/29/99, p.D3)
1999 Nov 3, Kashmiri guerrillas
killed an army major and 5 others at Indian army headquarters in
Srinagar.
(SFC, 11/4/99, p.A18)
1999 Dec 14, In Jammu-Kashmir,
India, at least 6 people were killed in clashes between secessionist
guerrillas and security forces.
(SFC, 12/15/99, p.B3)
1999 The Taliban of Afghanistan
sent 200 guerrillas of the 055 al Qaeda Brigade to fight in Kashmir.
(SSFC, 6/23/02, p.A12)
2000 Jan 3, In India controlled
Kashmir a land mine killed 17 people.
(WSJ, 1/4/00, p.A1)
2000 Jan 4, In Srinagar, Kashmir,
13 people and a horse were blown up in an explosion set by insurgents
in a vegetable market used by Indian troops.
(SFC, 1/22/00, p.A10)
2000 Feb 10, In Jammu-Kashmir a
train explosion killed at least 5 people. In northern Kashmir gunmen
burst into 2 homes in Pattan village and killed 6 people with 3 wounded.
(SFC, 2/11/00, p.D2)
2000 Feb 18, In Kashmir a land
mine killed 10 police officers in Tral. Another 6 were seriously
wounded. Militants for independence or union with Pakistan claimed
responsibility.
(SFC, 2/19/00, p.C1)
2000 Feb 25, Pakistan accused
India that soldier had crossed the border of Pakistan-controlled
Kashmir and killed 14 civilians.
(SFC, 2/28/00, p.C2)
2000 Feb 27, India claimed that
Pakistani soldiers had crossed the cease-fire line of Jammu-Kashmir and
killed one Indian officer and 6 other soldiers.
(SFC, 2/28/00, p.C2)
2000 Mar 20, In Kashmir gunmen
massacred 35 Sikhs in Chati Sionghpura Mattan.
(SFC, 3/21/00, p.A12)
2000 Mar, The Jaish-e-Mohammad
group formed in Pakistan as a merger of militant Islamic groups
dedicated mostly to freeing Muslims from Indian rule in Kashmir.
(SFC, 11/10/03, p.A1)
2000 Jun 2, In Kashmir an
explosive device killed at least 11 people in Gundqasim during Shiite
Muslim religious services.
(SFC, 6/3/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 4, In India the Cabinet
rejected a demand for political autonomy by the Kashmir state
legislature.
(SFC, 7/5/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 11, Muslim militants
killed 3 Buddhist monks at a vehicle check at Rangdum and escaped with
Harfurth Rolf, a German tourist. Rolf’s body was found Aug 3 on a
glacier in the Kishtwar mountain range.
(SFC, 8/5/00, p.A11)
2000 Jul 30, In Kashmir a
Pakistan-based rebel group opposed to a cease-fire attacked Indian
security forces and killed at least 3 soldiers.
(SFC, 8/1/00, p.A10)
2000 Aug 1, In Kashmir terrorists
killed nearly 50 people in 2 attacks. 18 men at a village in the
Anantnag area were killed as well as 30 Hindu pilgrims and Muslim
porters on their way to the Amarmath cave shrine at Pahalgam.
(SFC, 8/2/00, p.A13)
2000 Aug 2, In Kashmir the death
toll from guerrilla attacks climbed to 101.
(SFC, 8/3/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 8, The militant Hizbul
Mujahedeen called off its cease-fire.
(SFC, 8/9/00, p.A11)
2000 Aug 10, In Srinagar 11 people
were killed and 19 wounded from a car bomb set off by the Hizbul
Mujahedeen.
(SFC, 8/11/00, p.A14)
2000 Aug 13, In Kashmir 16 people
were killed and dozens injured in explosions and gun battles across the
province.
(SFC, 8/14/00, p.A13)
2000 Aug 13, In Kashmir 16 people
were killed and dozens injured in explosions and gun battles across the
province. 2 land mines killed 6 soldiers and 10 rebels died in battles
with government troops.
(SFC, 8/14/00, p.A13)(SFC, 8/15/00, p.A14)
2000 Aug 21, In Kashmir Muslim
guerrillas used booby traps to kill 5 Indian soldiers, while Indian
security forces killed 8 people believed to be part of the separatist
movement. Indian shelling into the Pakistani controlled side killed a
man and an 8-year-old girl. In Jachil Dhara guerrilla set explosives
killed an Indian general and a colonel.
(SFC, 8/22/00, p.A12)
2000 Aug 24, India and Pakistan
traded accusations over a clash in Kashmir. India claimed that 10
Pakistani fighters were killed, while Pakistan said 2 were killed.
(SFC, 8/25/00, p.D8)
2000 Nov 19, India announced a
1-month unilateral cease-fire in Kashmir.
(SFC, 11/20/00, p.A9)
2000 Nov 22, In Kashmir Islamic
militants assaulted 2 Indian military positions and killed several
soldiers. 3 militants were also reported killed.
(SFC, 11/23/00, p.D6)
2000 Nov 28, In Kashmir Muslim
separatists attacked Indian forces and 12 people were killed.
(SFC, 11/29/00, p.A18)
2000 Dec 4, In India the military
was attacked twice by suspected Islamic guerrillas and at least 5
people were killed. In Kashmir a bus carrying police officers fell into
a gorge at Baithi Chashma in the Donda district and at least 27
officers were killed.
(SFC, 12/5/00, p.A15)
2000 Dec 4, Pakistan said it won’t
insist to being party to Indian peace talks with Kashmiri separatists
but that it must be a party to the final settlement.
(WSJ, 12/5/00, p.A1)
2000 Dec 20, India and Pakistan
took steps to reduce tensions in Kashmir. India extended its cease-fire
and Pakistan announced a partial troop withdrawal.
(SFC, 12/21/00, p.A20)
2000 Dec 25, In Kashmir a
car bomb went off in Indian controlled Srinagar and 8 people were
killed with 23 injured. The Pakistan-based rebel groups Jamaat-ul
Mujahedeen and Jaish-e-Mohammad claimed responsibility.
(SFC, 12/26/00, p.C4)(WSJ, 12/26/00, p.A1)
2001 Jan 16, In Kashmir 11 people
died when militants attacked the airport at Srinagar. The
Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba guerrillas claimed responsibility. The
group was later banned in Pakistan but reappeared under the name
Jamaat-ud-Dawa.
(SFC, 1/17/01, p.A11)(Econ, 7/29/06, p.39)
2001 Jan 23, India extended its
cease-fire in Kashmir for a 3rd month.
(WSJ, 1/24/01, p.A1)
2001 Feb 22, India extended a
Kashmir cease-fire.
(WSJ, 2/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 11, In northern India 8
Islamic separatists and 2 government soldiers were killed in gun
battles in Jammu and Kashmir.
(SFC, 4/12/01, p.C2)
2001 May 9, In Kashmir Islamic
guerrillas, members of the Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba group, set
off explosives in a paramilitary camp in Magam and killed themselves
and 6 civilians.
(SFC, 5/10/01, p.C5)
2001 May 10, In Kashmir suspected
Islamic guerrillas beheaded 8 Hindu villagers after abducting them near
Sajan.
(SFC, 5/11/01, p.D8)
2001 May 23, India called off a
6-month cease-fire in Kashmir and at the same time invited Pakistan’s
military leader to visit and discuss how to bring peace to the region.
(SFC, 5/24/01, p.C2)
2001 Jul 10, In Kashmir 25 people
were killed as India pressed an offensive against Islamic insurgents.
(SFC, 7/11/01, p.A8)
2001 Jul 14, Gen. Pervez Musharraf
of Pakistan arrived in India for talks on Kashmir and other issues with
PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
(SSFC, 7/15/01, p.A12)
2001 Jul 16, In India the leaders
of Pakistan and India failed to agree on a peace settlement for Kashmir
but did agree to meet later in the year in Pakistan.
(SFC, 7/17/01, p.A6)
2001 Oct 1, In Srinagar, capital
of Jammu and Kashmir, a Pakistani-based suicide squad struck at the
Legislative Assembly and 38 people were killed.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 11/7/01, p.A17)(AP,
10/1/06)
2001 Oct 2, India demanded that
Pakistan shut down the Jaish-e-Mohammed (Army of the Prophet Mohammad)
militant group responsible for the Oct 1 attack in Srinagar that killed
40 people. India also asked the US to outlaw the group and to freeze
its assets.
(SFC, 10/3/01, p.A11)
2001 Oct 15, India shelled
Pakistani posts along their line in Jammu Kashmir for aiding Islamic
militants. One woman was killed and 25 civilians wounded.
(SFC, 10/16/01, p.B1)
2001 Oct 27, In Kashmir Islamic
rebels fought Indian troops in several areas and at least 21 people
were killed.
(SSFC, 10/28/01, p.A20)
2001 Nov 2, In Kashmir
Indian forces killed at least 25 suspected Islamic militants who tried
to cross over to Pakistan.
(SFC, 11/3/01, p.C2)
2001 Nov 10, In Kashmir Indian
forces battled suspected Islamic militants and 18 people were killed.
(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A14)
2001 Nov 21, India border forces
in Kashmir killed at least 12 suspected Islamic guerrillas trying to
cross a cease-fire line with Pakistan.
(SFC, 11/22/01, p.A21)
2001 Dec 13, In India 5 gunmen and
a suicide bomber tried to enter a gate at the parliament building in
New Delhi. 6 policemen and the attackers were killed and 18 wounded.
The Kashmiri Lashkar-e-Tayyaba separatist group was held responsible. 5
gunmen were killed after they had killed 7 Indians.
(SFC, 12/13/01, p.A4)(SFC, 12/14/01, p.A3)(WSJ,
12/14/01, p.A1)(SFC, 12/15/01, p.A3)(SSFC, 12/16/01, p.A14)
2002 Jan 1, Pakistan ordered the
country’s military intelligence agency to cut off backing for Islamic
militant groups fighting in Kashmir.
(SFC, 1/2/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 2, In India, Kashmir,
militants detonated 2 grenades near the legislature killing 1 police
officer and wounding at least 24. 2 soldiers were later killed by
militants at an Indian military post in Darhal.
(SFC, 1/3/02, p.A3)
2002 Jan 8, India and Pakistan
traded fire on their Kashmir border.
(WSJ, 1/9/02, p.A1)
2002 Jan 21, In Kashmir 21 people
died in violence.
(WSJ, 1/22/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 4, In Kashmir separatist
violence left at least 17 people dead. This included 8 Islamic
militants killed by Indian soldiers.
(SFC, 3/5/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 30, In Kashmir suspected
Islamic militants exchanged fire with Indian police in Jammu and 10
people were killed.
(SSFC, 3/31/02, p.A17)
2002 May 14, In Kashmir 3 Islamic
militant attacked an Indian army base and killed 34 civilians and
soldiers in Kaluchak. India held Pakistan responsible.
(SFC, 5/14/02, p.A13)(SFC, 5/15/02, p.A11)(WSJ,
5/16/02, p.A1)
2002 May 18, India and Pakistan
traded fire for a 2nd day across the Line of Control. India gave its
Pakistan ambassador 1 week to return home and bombarded 13 sectors in
Kashmir.
(SSFC, 5/19/02, p.A11)
2002 May 19, Weekend fighting in
Kashmir between India and Pakistan left at least 15 people killed.
(SFC, 5/20/02, p.A8)
2002 May 20, Palestine called for
int’l. monitors for the Kashmir border. 2 Indian soldiers were killed
in fighting.
(SFC, 5/21/02, p.A9)
2002 May 21, Fighting between
Indian and Pakistan soldiers in Kashmir killed 9 civilians and wounded
7 others. Gunmen in Srinagar assassinated Abdul Ghani Lone (70), a
moderate Kashmiri separatist leader.
(SFC, 5/21/02, p.A9)(SFC, 5/22/02, p.A13)(WSJ,
5/22/02, p.A1)
2002 ~May 24, Pres. Vajpayee
announced a $1.3 billion aid package for Kashmir and promised fair
elections.
(WSJ, 5/30/02, p.A10)
2002 May 25, Pakistan tested a
medium-range Ghauri missile. Mortar fire was traded with India on the
Kashmir border and 3 suspected Islamic militants were killed along with
2 Indian soldiers.
(SSFC, 5/26/02, p.A12)
2002 May 25, Pres. Bush and Putin
pressured Pakistan’s Pres. Musharraf to stop incursions into
Indian-controlled Kashmir.
(SSFC, 5/26/02, p.A12)
2002 May 29, In Kashmir
cross-border shelling killed at least 23 people and wounded 17.
(WSJ, 5/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Jun 3, India and Pakistan
exchanged fire in Kashmir and at least 8 civilians were killed and 23
injured.
(SFC, 6/4/02, p.A8)
2002 Jun 5, India PM Vajpayee said
his country would consider jointly monitoring the disputed Kashmir
border with Pakistan. Pakistan rejected India’s proposal for joint
patrols in Kashmir.
(SFC, 6/5/02, p.A1)(SFC, 6/6/02, p.A8)
2002 Jun 14, In Kashmir India and
Pakistan continued cross border shelling. Pakistan reported Indian
shelling killed 6 civilians, including 3 children.
(SFC, 6/15/02, p.A8)
2002 Jun 16, In Indian
Kashmir suspected Islamic militants hurled grenades and opened fire on
police, sleeping villagers and Hindu pilgrims, killing 12 people over
the last 24 hours. 21 people, including five Hindu villagers, were
killed in several incidents of separatist violence.
(AP, 6/16/02)(Reuters, 6/16/02)(SFC, 6/17/02, p.A8)
2002 Jun 21, In Kashmir 13
suspected Islamic militants were killed in the Indian-controlled
section. Rebels killed Ghulam Rasool, a member of the governing
national Conference Party. In the Pakistan-controlled section a sniper
opened fire on a truck carrying 22 people and 10 were killed when it
plunged into a ravine.
(SFC, 6/22/02, p.A6)
2002 Jun 27, In India’s
Jammu-Kashmir 9 people, including three soldiers, were killed and 22
wounded in separate incidents of violence.
(Reuters, 6/27/02)(SFC, 6/28/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 6, In Indian-ruled
Kashmir 2 soldiers and two separatist rebels were killed in fighting.
(Reuters, 7/6/02)
2002 Jul 12, In India's Kashmir
region at least 10 people were killed and 15 wounded, some critically,
in a shootout. Shops and businesses downed shutters in Srinagar, the
summer capital of India's disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir, in
response to a strike call by separatists to honor Kashmiri "martyrs".
(Reuters, 7/13/02)(SFC, 7/13/02, p.A14)
2002 Jul 13, Outside Jammu,
Kashmir, a grenade and gun attack on a Hindu slum that left 27 people
dead, dozens wounded and rekindled fears of war with nuclear neighbor
Pakistan.
(Reuters, 7/14/02)(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.A12)
2002 Jul 16, In India-controlled
Kashmir a grenade wounded at least 13 people in Anantnag.
(SFC, 7/17/02, p.A7)
2002 Jul 22, In Indian Kashmir 4
suspected separatist rebels were killed in a shootout with troops while
a policeman and a civilian were wounded in separate blasts.
(Reuters, 7/22/02)
2002 Aug 6, In Kashmir suspected
Islamic militant lobbed a grenade and opened fire on a group of Hindu
pilgrims 175 miles north of Jammu.
(SFC, 8/6/02, p.A7)
2002 Aug 20, Indian troops killed
14 Muslim rebels trying to sneak into Kashmir from Pakistan.
(WSJ, 8/21/02, p.A1)
2002 Aug 24, Suspected rebels shot
dead eight Muslim villagers, including three women, in Indian Kashmir
as a U.S. envoy took his peace mission to Islamabad to try to cool
tensions on the subcontinent.
(Reuters, 8/24/02)
2002 Aug 28, Police in India
reported that 14 people, including 10 Muslim militants, were killed in
clashes between Indian security forces and separatist rebels in India's
Jammu and Kashmir state.
(Reuters, 8/28/02)
2002 Aug 29, Indian soldiers
killed 5 guerrillas after they crossed into the India-controlled
portion of Kashmir.
(SFC, 8/30/02, p.A19)
2002 Sep 6, In Indian Kashmir
suspected Muslim rebels shot dead Sheikh Abdul Rehman, a politician
contesting state elections, in the first killing of a candidate since
the campaign began.
(Reuters, 9/6/02)
2002 Sep 11, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir Islamic militants killed Mushtaq Ahmad Lone (44), a state law
minister and legislative candidate. 15 others were killed in 2 other
attacks.
(SFC, 9/12/02, p.A5)
2002 Sep 16, Indian-ruled Kashmir
ended the first stage of state assembly elections against a backdrop of
violence and in the shadow of a tense confrontation between nuclear
powers India and Pakistan. Indian troops killed 9 suspected Islamic
rebels in a border sweep hours before the elections. A 44% turnout was
reported.
(Reuters, 9/16/02)(WSJ, 9/16/02, p.A1)(SFC, 9/17/02,
p.A10)
2002 Sep 18, In Srinagar, Kashmir,
2 ruling party workers were gunned down and a ruling lawmaker was
attacked ahead of the second round of voting in a state election dogged
by anti-poll violence that left 13 people dead.
(Reuters, 9/18/02)(SFC, 9/19/02, p.A10)
2002 Sep 22, In Kashmir 6 police
were wounded and one Muslim militant killed following an attack on a
police compound in Srinagar.
(SSFC, 9/22/02, p.A12)
2002 Sep 23, In Kashmir Muslim
separatists killed 10 people in grenade attacks on polling stations to
frighten voters.
(SFC, 9/24/02, p.A13)
2002 Sep 25, Indian forces killed
five suspected Islamic militants trying to cross into Indian Kashmir
from Pakistan as new tensions were stoked between the nuclear rivals
over an attack on an Indian temple.
(AP, 9/25/02)
2002 Oct 1, In Indian Kashmir
gunmen killed 9 people on a bus and attacked several polling stations
as voters shunned the third round of elections in the troubled state's
separatist heartland. 6 paramilitary troopers were killed when their
vehicle exploded south of Srinagar.
(Reuters, 10/1/02)(SFC, 10/2/02, p.A12)
2002 Oct 3, India said it had
killed eight Islamic militants trying to enter Indian Kashmir from
Pakistani territory as the state battles a surge in rebel violence just
days before the end of a disputed election.
(Reuters, 10/3/02)
2002 Oct 8, In Indian Kashmir
suspected Muslim separatist militants disguised as policemen stormed a
polling station, gunning down two soldiers, as turbulent state
elections ended. A 44% turnout ousted the pro-Indian national
Conference.
(Reuters, 10/8/02)(SFC, 10/11/02, p.A10)
2002 Oct 9, India claimed victory
after completing a turbulent state election in Indian Kashmir which it
long saw as an essential rite of passage before it could consider talks
with Pakistan.
(AP, 10/9/02)
2002 Oct 18, India assumed direct
control over Kashmir after elections failed to produce a viable
government.
(WSJ, 10/18/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 19, In Indian Kashmir at
least 4 suspected militants were shot dead while others detonated a
bomb, killing a policeman and wounding 15 people.
(Reuters, 10/19/02)
2002 Oct 27, Kashmir's new ruling
coalition vowed to release political prisoners and probe custodial
deaths as a first step to end a separatist revolt.
(AP, 10/27/02)
2002 Nov 2, In Kashmir Mufti
Muhammad Sayeed, head of the People’s Democratic Party, was sworn in as
chief minister after 2 rifle grenades were thrown at his home. 16
people were killed in violence that followed.
(SSFC, 11/3/02, p.A10)(WSJ, 11/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 11, Islamic militants in
Kashmir killed 13 police in a bomb attack.
(WSJ, 11/12/02, p.A1)
2002 Nov 23, In Indian-ruled
Kashmir 12 people, including six soldiers, were killed and 23 injured
when their bus ran over a landmine planted by suspected militants.
(Reuters, 11/23/02)
2002 Nov 24, In Kashmir militants
stormed a Hindu temple and engaged security forces in a 10-hour
gunfight that killed 14 people.
(SFC, 11/27/02, p.A17)
2002 Nov 25, Indian security
forces shot dead two suspected Muslim militants who had attacked Hindu
temples in Indian Kashmir, ending a bloody siege that cast a shadow
over efforts to bring peace to the disputed region.
(AP, 11/25/02)
2002 Nov 26, In Kashmir’s
Kralapora village 3 schoolboys were killed when they hit a live grenade
that they mistook for a cricket ball.
(SFC, 11/27/02, p.A17)
2002 Nov 30, At least 11 people
were killed and 30 wounded in separatist clashes in the northern Indian
state of Jammu and Kashmir.
(AP, 11/30/02)
2002 Dec 1, In Kashmir 10 people,
including 4 militants, were killed in fresh clashes between Muslim
guerrillas and Indian security forces.
(Reuters, 12/1/02)
2002 Dec 7, In Kashmir 14 people,
including eight Muslim rebels, were killed in fresh separatist
violence, as a four-day truce announced by a hardline militant group
neared its end.
(Reuters, 12/8/02)
2002 Dec 19, Suspected militants
killed three young women (21-22) in their homes just days after posters
appeared in India's Jammu and Kashmir state ordering women to wear a
veil.
(Reuters, 12/20/02)
2002 Dec 24, In India's mainly
Muslim state of Kashmir 4 civilians and 9 separatist guerrillas were
killed in the latest rebel violence.
(Reuters, 12/24/02)
2002 Sudha Koul, US resident since
the 1970s, authored her memoir “The Tiger Ladies: A Memoir of Kashmir.”
(WSJ, 5/29/02, p.D7)
2003 Feb 20, In
Indian-controlled Kashmir explosives hidden in snow near a town market
of Baramula killed six civilians.
(AP, 2/20/03)
2003 Mar 4, In the
Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir a bus fell into a deep gorge,
killing at least nine people and injuring 52.
(AP, 3/4/03)
2003 Mar 7, Heavy snow set
off avalanches along the cease-fire line dividing Kashmir between India
and Pakistan, killing at least 17 people, mostly soldiers, and
stranding hundreds.
(AP, 3/7/03)
2003 Mar 23, In Kashmir gunmen
shot to death Abdul Majid Dar, the former leader of Kashmir's largest
Islamic rebel group, in what may have been retribution for talks with
the Indian government.
(AP, 3/23/03)
2003 Mar 24, Suspected Islamic
militants in Indian army uniforms dragged 24 Hindus from their homes,
lined them up outside a temple and shot them to death in a remote
village in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
(AP, 3/24/03)
2003 Mar 28, In Jammu-Kashmir
suspected Islamic militants attacked and mutilated 5 Kashmiri Muslim
villagers, accusing them of being police informants.
(AP, 3/28/03)
2003 Apr 2, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir the chief of the largest militant group was killed in a
shootout with police in the strife-torn Himalayan province.
(AP, 4/2/03)
2003 Apr 6, Indian troops killed
Fayaz Ahmad Khan, a top commander of Harkat-ul Mujahedeen, a Kashmiri
guerrilla group that is suspected in the 1995 abduction of six Western
tourists and a 1999 airliner hijacking.
(AP, 4/6/03)
2003 Apr 19, India's prime
minister acknowledged the government had manipulated elections in
Indian-controlled Kashmir and promised residents it would not be
repeated.
(AP, 4/19/03)
2003 Apr 22, In Kashmir a bomb
exploded beside a rural road, killing five people and injuring 12
others, as former Indian Home Secretary N.N. Vohra made a weeklong
visit to the state to explore the possibility of talks with separatist
groups.
(AP, 4/22/03)
2003 Apr 25, In the northern state
of Kashmir a powerful explosion ripped through a courthouse, killing
three people and injuring 34.
(AP, 4/25/03)
2003 Apr 26, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir a car bombing and ensuing gunbattle at the offices of state-run
radio and television killed 3 suspected Islamic militants and 2
soldiers. A boat carrying 30 schoolchildren capsized in a mountain
waterway in Kashmir, drowning at least three, police said. 21 other
children were missing.
(AP, 4/26/03)
2003 Apr 29, Indian troops raided
a base of suspected Islamic militants in Kashmir, sparking a firefight
that lasted more than five hours and resulted in 17 deaths.
(AP, 4/29/03)
2003 Jun 28, Two suspected Islamic
militants stormed an army camp in Kashmir, killing 12 soldiers before
being slain themselves.
(AP, 6/28/03)
2003 Jul 4, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir suspected Islamic guerrillas tossed a grenade and opened fire
at a meeting between a minister and health officials, killing 2 people
and wounding 28.
(AP, 7/5/03)
2003 Jul 13, In Kashmir a bus
skidded off a mountain road after hitting another vehicle and fell into
a river, killing at least 16 people and injuring 19.
(AP, 7/13/03)
2003 Jul 22, In Indian-held
Kashmir 3 suspected Islamic guerrillas attacked an army camp, killing
at least 8 soldiers and wounding more than a dozen others before being
slain.
(AP, 7/22/03)
2003 Sep 6, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir a bomb targeting an army convoy exploded in the main wholesale
market for fruit, killing six people, including an army officer, and
wounding 25.
(AP, 9/6/03)
2003 Sep 13, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir suspected Islamic rebels killed a former lawmaker as gunbattles
and other violence escalated across Indian-controlled Kashmir, leaving
20 people dead and 37 wounded.
(AP, 9/13/03)
2003 Sep 20, The Indian army said
it killed six suspected separatist guerrillas from a Pakistan-based
group after a fierce battle in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
(AP, 9/20/03)
2003 Sep 21, In India's portion of
Kashmir a bomb hidden inside a videocassette recorder exploded in a
busy market, killing 3 people and wounding 28 others.
(AP, 9/21/03)
2003 Sep 24, India rejected
Pakistan's invitation to negotiate a settlement concerning the disputed
province of Kashmir.
(AP, 9/25/03)
2003 Sep 29, India's army said
that it killed 15 Islamic militants as they tried overnight to sneak
into Indian-controlled Kashmir from Pakistan-controlled territory.
(AP, 9/29/03)
2003 Oct 18, India commandos
raided a Srinagar, Kashmir, shopping center where suspected Islamic
guerrillas were holed up, killing both men and ending a one-day
standoff.
(AP, 10/18/03)
2003 Nov 27, Indian security
forces battled rebels in villages along the border in Kashmir and
suspected insurgents detonated a grenade in a busy market. The violence
left 12 people dead.
(AP, 11/27/03)
2003 Dec 7, In Indian-held Kashmir
an overcrowded bus skidded off a steep mountain road and plunged 1,500
feet into a gorge, killing 23 passengers and injuring 13 others.
(AP, 12/7/03)
2003 Dec 30, At least 34 Indian
soldiers were wounded in Kashmir when militants detonated a bomb in a
shop as the bus carrying the troops passed by.
(Reuters, 12/30/03)
2003 Sumantra Bose authored
"Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace."
(SSFC, 9/28/03, p.M1)
2004 Jan 9, In Kashmir a hand
grenade exploded at a mosque, wounding at least 15 worshippers who had
gathered for prayers.
(AP, 1/9/04)
2004 Jan 17, Indian soldiers and
Islamic rebels clashed in disputed Kashmir in two separate gunbattles
that killed eight guerrillas and two paramilitary soldiers.
(AP, 1/17/04)
2004 Feb 5, Indian soldiers shot
and killed 10 suspected Muslim militants in the forests of northern
Kashmir.
(AP, 2/5/04)
2004 Feb 16, India and Pakistan
began historic meetings aimed at preparing for a sustained peace
dialogue on Kashmir and other disputes.
(AP, 2/16/04)
2004 Feb 17, India and Pakistan
reached a broad agreement on the timetable for sustained peace talks on
disputed Kashmir and other tough issues separating the South Asian
neighbors.
(AP, 2/17/04)
2004 Apr 8, In Indian-held Kashmir
a grenade explosion and gunfire at an election rally killed 9 people
and wounded at least 60, including the state's tourism and finance
ministers.
(AP, 4/8/04)(WSJ, 4/9/04, p.A1)
2004 May 23, In India's portion of
Kashmir suspected Islamic militants blew up a military bus, killing at
least 33 soldiers and relatives, and wounding 15.
(AP, 5/23/04)(SFC, 5/24/04, p.A7)
2004 Jun 12, In Iraq gunmen killed
Bassam Salih Kubba, a deputy foreign minister as he went to work in
Baghdad.
(AP, 6/12/04)
2004 Jun 26, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir suspected Islamic rebels raided a village and shot to death 12
Muslims while they slept.
(AP, 6/26/04)
2004 Jul 3, In the Indian portion
of Kashmir a mountain gunbattle, a time bomb hidden in a fruit seller's
hand cart and a grenade lobbed in a busy market killed 8 people and
wounded 44.
(AP, 7/3/04)
2004 Jul 5, A suspicious fire
gutted Kashmir's oldest educational institution, destroying 30,000 rare
books on Islam, including some of the world's oldest copies of the
Quran.
(AP, 7/5/04)
2004 Jul 11, Suspected Muslim
guerrillas sliced off the nose, ears and tongue of Mariam Begum, a
14-year-old girl in Indian Kashmir, believing her to be an informer for
the Indian army. Elsewhere in Kashmir, 16 Muslim rebels and four
soldiers were killed in separate gun battles over the weekend.
(Reuters, 7/11/04)
2004 Jul 17, At least 15 people
were killed and many more injured when a crowded bus skidded off a road
and fell into a gorge in Kashmir.
(AP, 7/17/04)
2004 Jul 19, Kashmir militants
attacked a Congress party rally in Duru and killed 5 people.
(WSJ, 7/20/04, p.A1)
2004 Jul 25, In Kashmir a group of
9 militants barged into the home of Mohammed Shafi in a remote village
in Rajouri district and beheaded him. They also killed his 22-year-old
son and 15-year-old daughter.
(AP, 7/26/04)
2004 Aug 4, In Kashmir Muslim
militants killed nine Indian troopers in an attack on a paramilitary
camp, just hours before India and Pakistan, which both claim the
region, began a round of peace talks.
(AP, 8/5/04)
2004 Sep 4, India's PM Singh said
his government was ready to talk to any militant group, including those
in Kashmir, abandoning previous preconditions that the rebels must
first disarm.
(AP, 9/4/04)
2004 Sep 6, India and Pakistan
ended 2-day talks to settle their dispute over Kashmir. Yasin Malik,
the chairman of pro-independence Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF),
said the dispute could not be settled unless residents of the region
are included in talks.
(AFP, 9/6/04)
2004 Sep 18, Indian troops shot
dead 14 Islamic militants in clashes across Indian-administered
Kashmir, while suspected rebels killed four civilians.
(AP, 9/18/04)
2004 Sep 22, Four Islamic
militants were killed in a clash with Indian troops along the disputed
border in Kashmir on the eve of a summit between the two countries'
leaders.
(AP, 9/23/04)
2004 Sep 30, Two gunmen in
Srinagar shot dead a member of the moderate faction of Kashmir's main
separatist alliance.
(AP, 9/30/04)
2004 Oct 4, Six separatist rebels
were killed in a clash between separatist rebels and security forces in
a thickly forested area in Jammu and Kashmir.
(AP, 10/4/04)
2004 Oct 7, In Kashmir 4 Islamic
militants were killed by Indian forces while rebels killed a
paramilitary soldier and critically wounded a pro-India political
activist.
(AP, 10/7/04)
2004 Oct 24, Militants bombed
mourners arriving at a Kashmir graveyard for the funeral of a murdered
opposition party leader, killing one and wounding six.
(AP, 10/24/04)
2004 Nov 3, Indian troops killed
five Islamic militants in a fierce gunbattle in insurgency-hit Kashmir
after the rebels barricaded themselves inside a mosque.
(AP, 11/3/04)
2004 Nov 7, Kashmiri separatists
gave a cautious welcome on to India's offer to allow them to visit
Pakistan. Thousands of people in Indian Kashmir staged a protest,
alleging that soldiers had raped a 10-year-old girl and her mother.
(Reuters, 11/7/04)
2004 Nov 11, Indian PM Manmohan
Singh announced a reduction in troops in disputed Kashmir in a fresh
initiative to push forward a fraying peace process with Pakistan.
(AP, 11/11/04)
2004 Nov 16, India said its army
will start reducing the number of troops in revolt-hit Kashmir to
coincide with a visit to the state by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Military experts estimate that India has about 250,000 troops in
Kashmir.
(AP, 11/16/04)
2004 Nov 17, India's PM Manmohan
Singh paid a rare visit to the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir,
marking the start of a partial troop withdrawal that has been hailed by
rival Pakistan as an important step in easing tensions. Pakistan's
powerful Islamic parties dismissed the partial pullout of Indian troops
from Indian-administered Kashmir as tokenistic "eyewash", saying a
plebiscite was the only solution to the half-century dispute. India
began pulling an estimated 40k of some 500k soldiers from Kashmir.
(AP, 11/17/04)(AFP, 11/17/04)(WSJ, 11/18/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 20, India pulled out
around 3,000 troops from Kashmir.
(AP, 11/20/04)
2004 Nov 23, In Kashmir suspected
Muslim rebels shot dead five people in overnight attacks.
(AP, 11/23/04)
2004 Nov 23, Pakistani Prime
Minister Shaukat Aziz arrived in India to help push forward a fragile
peace process.
(AP, 11/23/04)
2004 Dec 5, In Kashmir a
remote-controlled roadside bomb blew up an army patrol car in a
pre-dawn attack, killing an Indian army major and 10 other soldiers.
(AP, 12/5/04)
2004 Dec 24, Suspected militants
hurled a grenade in a village market in Indian Kashmir, killing one
person and wounding eight others.
(Reuters, 12/24/04)
2005 Jan 7, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir police said militants stormed a government building, setting it
on fire with 70 employees still trapped inside. Three people were
killed in the fighting.
(AP, 1/7/05)
2005 Jan 8, Indian security forces
killed the last rebel holed up inside a government office in Kashmir,
ending a two-day battle during which guerrillas took over the building
and set it on fire with dozens of employees inside.
(AP, 1/8/05)
2005 Jan 15, In Kashmir separatist
guerrillas stormed a government building in Srinagar, triggering a
gunbattle with security forces days ahead of Republic Day celebrations.
(AP, 1/15/05)
2005 Jan 16, A 25-hour stand-off
between Islamic guerrillas and Indian forces in Srinagar, Kashmir,
ended after two militants holed up inside an indoor stadium were killed
by troops.
(AP, 1/16/05)
2005 Jan 27, India has decided to
open the main airport in disputed Kashmir to international flights to
draw more tourists to the scenic Himalayan region.
(Reuters, 1/27/05)
2005 Jan 29, In insurgency-hit
Indian Kashmir voters turned out in big numbers to cast ballots in the
first leg of municipal polls to be held in over a quarter of a century.
(AFP, 1/29/05)
2005 Feb 6, in Kashmir an
overcrowded bus skidded off a mountain road and crashed into a ravine,
killing at least 28 passengers and injuring 33.
(AP, 2/6/05)
2005 Feb 9, In Kashmir suspected
Muslim rebels shot dead a popular municipal councilor outside a mosque.
Separately Indian troops killed 4 militants in a gunbattle inside a
mountain cave.
(AP, 2/9/05)
2005 Feb 11, Kashmir police said
10 people died, including a pro-India party worker slain by Muslim
rebels, a day ahead of the next round of violence-hit municipal polls.
(AP, 2/11/05)
2005 Feb 13, In Indian Kashmir at
least 35 people were wounded when suspected separatist guerrillas threw
a grenade on a crowded road.
(AP, 2/13/05)
2005 Feb 16, India and Pakistan
agreed to start a bus service across a ceasefire line dividing the
disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir beginning on Apr 7.
(Reuters, 2/16/05)(Econ, 2/19/05, p.39)
2005 Feb 21, An official said
avalanches and slides triggered by heavy weekend snowfall in India's
portion of Kashmir had killed at least 249 people.
(AP, 2/21/05)(AFP, 2/26/05)
2005 Feb 24, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir 2 armed militants stormed a government office complex,
prompting a four-hour gunbattle that left seven people dead, including
the attackers.
(AP, 2/24/05)
2005 Mar 24, Suspected Muslim
insurgents shot dead the brother of Kashmir's junior home minister
while he was walking to a market.
(Reuters, 3/24/05)
2005 Mar 27, Kashmir police said
suspected militants shot dead a grandmother, mother and her infant
daughter after the child's father, a former Kashmiri separatist rebel,
surrendered to Indian security forces.
(AP, 3/27/05)
2005 Apr 5, Rebels opposed to a
bus link joining parts of Kashmir controlled by rivals India and
Pakistan set off bombs and fought gun battles with troops, two days
before the service was due to start.
(AP, 4/5/05)
2005 Apr 6, In Srinagar 2
suspected Islamic militants stormed a building housing passengers on
the eve of a historic bus ride across the divided Himalayan territory
of Kashmir, in an attack targeting the biggest India-Pakistan peace
gesture in decades. Both attackers were killed and at least six people
wounded, but all the bus passengers were safe.
(AP, 4/6/05)
2005 Apr 7, Passengers on historic
bus trips between the Pakistani and Indian portions of Kashmir crossed
a bridge spanning the de facto border, voyages both sides hope will
lead to lasting peace on the subcontinent. Kashmiris walked across the
“Peace Bridge,” on the Line of Control between India and Pakistan.
(AP, 4/7/05)(SFC, 4/8/05, p.A3)
2005 Apr 8, The Gulmarg Gondola
was inaugurated. The Jammu and Kashmir Cable Car Corporation (JKCCC)
made the second phase of the Gulmarg Gondola operational taking it to
the heights of the Afarwat peak.
(SSFC, 2/26/06,
p.E1)(www.natives.co.uk/news/2005/04/13indi.htm)
2005 Apr 10, In Indian Kashmir 2
civilians were killed and 20 others wounded when suspected Muslim
rebels hurled a grenade in a crowded area.
(Reuters, 4/10/05)
2005 Apr 25, Indian troops killed
6 Islamic militants in a mountainous Kashmir district bordering the
Pakistani-zone of the divided state, while suspected rebels hanged to
death a civilian.
(AFP, 4/26/05)
2005 Apr 27, Indian troops killed
nine suspected Islamic militants in three separate clashes in
Indian-controlled Kashmir.
(AP, 4/27/05)
2005 Apr 28, Indian troops shot
dead four Muslim rebels who infiltrated into Indian Kashmir from the
Pakistani-zone of the divided state.
(AP, 4/29/05)
2005 May 3, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir suspected rebels killed six people in attacks, while at least
six militants died in an overnight gunbattle with soldiers.
(AP, 5/3/05)
2005 May 11, In the Indian portion
of Kashmir a series of rebel bomb attacks and gunfights with security
forces left at least 13 people dead and dozens injured.
(AP, 5/11/05)
2005 May 12, In Srinagar, Kashmir,
a grenade thrown by suspected Islamic rebels exploded outside a school,
killing two women and wounding at least 57 people, many of them
schoolchildren and their parents.
(AP, 5/12/05)
2005 May 14, In Indian Kashmir
suspected Muslim rebels shot dead the brother of an ex-militant who
became a moderate separatist leader.
(AFP, 5/14/05)
2005 May 17, In Kashmir suspected
Muslim rebels threw a grenade at a group of mourners in Srinagar,
killing two and wounding at least 20. Earlier in the day suspected
rebels killed four villagers by slitting their throats on the outskirts
of Srinagar.
(AP, 5/17/05)
2005 May 26, India and Pakistan
exchanged ideas on ending a two-decade-old military standoff on
Kashmir's Siachen glacier, as senior defense officials began a two-day
meeting.
(AP, 5/26/05)
2005 Jun 5, Five suspected Islamic
militants were killed in an ongoing gunbattle with troops in Indian
Kashmir's Rajouri district.
(AP, 6/5/05)
2005 Jun 13, In Kashmir a bomb
hidden in a pickup truck exploded in the bustling town of Pulwama,
killing 15 people, including the suspected attacker, and injuring at
least 60 others.
(AP, 6/13/05)
2005 Jun 14, A strike called by
Kashmir separatists paralyzed India's portion of the disputed Himalayan
province, shutting almost all shops, schools and offices to protest an
apparent suicide attack that killed 15 people and injured 60 a day
earlier.
(AP, 6/14/05)
2005 Jun 24, India refused
permission for Pakistan's information minister, who once sheltered
anti-Indian Kashmiri separatists, to visit its part of Kashmir on a new
"peace bus".
(AP, 6/24/05)
2005 Jun 24, In India's portion of
Kashmir Islamic militants triggered a car bomb by remote control as an
army convoy drove past a popular park, killing 9 soldiers and wounding
22 other people.
(AP, 6/25/05)
2005 Jul 5, In Kashmir suspected
Islamic militants shot dead five people, two of them Indian soldiers
guarding the de facto border with Pakistan. The soldiers were killed
during a clash with militants near the Line of Control (LoC) that
divides Kashmir.
(AP, 7/6/05)
2005 Jul 6, In Kashmir Indian
troops shot dead, Hizbul Mujahedin, a self-styled divisional commander
of the region's main rebel group in the northern district of Baramulla.
(AP, 7/6/05)
2005 Jul 14, Indian troops
recovered the bodies of 5 Islamic militants as they hunted rebels high
in the rugged Himalayas in northern Indian Kashmir. 7 people died in
other violence. A spokesman identified one of the slain rebels as Abu
Lukman, a senior member of the region's main rebel group Hizbul
Mujahedin.
(AFP, 7/14/05)
2005 Jul 16, Security forces in
India's portion of Kashmir killed at least 17 suspected Islamic
militants, including 13 rebels who had entered the region from Pakistan.
(AP, 7/17/05)
2005 Jul 20, In Kashmir a car bomb
blew up an army jeep, killing 5 soldiers and at least one civilian and
injuring 20 others near a school in an elite neighborhood of Srinagar.
(AP, 7/20/05)
2005 Jul 21, In Indian Kashmir 2
bus passengers were killed and three were wounded when they were caught
in an exchange of fire between militants and soldiers.
(AP, 7/21/05)
2005 Jul 22, In Kashmir separatist
militants fighting Indian rule in the country's only Muslim-majority
state said they would not allow minority Hindus who fled the region
after the revolt broke out 16 years ago to return.
(AP, 7/22/05)
2005 Jul 24, Indian troops in
Kashmir killed 3 innocent teenagers after troops mistook them for
militants. Demonstrations followed among angry Kashmiri Muslims in
Jammu and Kashmir, largely Hindu India's only Muslim-majority state.
(Reuters, 7/25/05)
2005 Jul 25, Indian army said it
had shot dead five militants in Kupwara district of Kashmir when they
were trying to sneak into India from the Pakistani side.
(Reuters, 7/25/05)
2005 Jul 28, In the
Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir suspected Islamic militants raided
the village of Dhoob, separated the villagers by religion and killed 5
Hindus by slitting their throats.
(AP, 7/29/05)
2005 Jul 29, In Kashmir 15 people,
including six journalists, were wounded during a fierce gunbattle
between troops and Muslim rebels in Srinagar. Rebels killed 2 soldiers
in a grenade and gun attack on a police patrol.
(AP, 7/29/05)(AP, 7/30/05)
2005 Jul 30, In Kashmir militants
holed up in buildings on a busy street in Srinagar fired at security
forces during a raid.
(AP, 7/30/05)
2005 Aug 5, Police in Kashmir
detained at least 10 protesters as hundreds demonstrated against the
death sentence handed out to a Kashmiri Muslim for a raid on the
country's parliament four years ago.
(AP, 8/5/05)
2005 Aug 12, Suspected Islamic
militants raided a remote mountain village in India's Jammu-Kashmir
state and attacked 2 Hindu families as they dined together, killing 5
people.
(AP, 8/13/05)
2005 Aug 13, In Indian Kashmir 9
people died in fresh fighting. Troops intensified search operations
ahead of India's Aug 15 Independence Day, which separatists observe as
a "black day".
(AFP, 8/14/05)
2005 Aug 20, Indian troops shot
dead a Hindu fighting for the biggest Islamic separatist rebel group in
Indian Kashmir.
(AFP, 8/20/05)
2005 Aug 26, In Indian Kashmir at
least 15 people, including three soldiers, were wounded when suspected
Islamist rebels threw five grenades at different places in Sopore. 4
people, including 2 militants, were killed in separate shootouts across
the region in the past 24 hours.
(AP, 8/26/05)
2005 Aug 28, Aasiya Andrabi,
Indian Kashmir's leading female separatist, formed a squad to raid
brothels and appealed to people for help in reporting cases of adultery.
(AP, 8/28/05)
2005 Sep 5, Kashmir's main
political separatist alliance started peace talks with the Indian prime
minister, seeking trust and an easing of harsh military controls in the
troubled region.
(Reuters, 9/5/05)
2005 Sep 28, In Indian Kashmir 6
Islamic militants were killed in two shootouts including one near the
border with Pakistan, while suspected rebels killed a civilian. 4
militants were killed in a gunbattle that erupted when police raided a
militant hideout in the northern district of Kupwara near the ceasefire
Line of Control with Pakistan. Two other rebels died in a fierce
gunfight that broke out when soldiers launched a search for militants
in a village in the central district of Budgam.
(AP, 9/29/05)
2005 Sep 29, A bus accident in
India's portion of Kashmir has left 44 people dead and 42 others
injured.
(AP, 9/30/05)
2005 Oct 8, A 7.6-magnitude
earthquake hit Kashmir near the Pakistan-India border reaching to
Afghanistan. It reduced villages to rubble, triggered landslides and
flattened an apartment building, killing thousands of people in India
and Pakistan. Pakistani officials said the death toll ranged between
nearly 20,000 and 30,000. The newly reopened "Peace Bridge" linking the
Indian and Pakistani portions of disputed Kashmir nearly collapsed
during the earthquake. The death toll from the quake reached 87,350.
The UN estimated that 3 million people were left homeless by the
earthquake.
(AP, 10/9/05)(SSFC, 10/9/05, p.A1)(AP,
11/8/05)(Econ, 5/6/06, p.44)
2005 Oct 13, A female suicide
bomber blew herself up minutes before an army convoy was to pass on a
key highway in Indian Kashmir, the first such attack by a woman in the
region's Islamic separatist conflict.
(AP, 10/13/05)
2005 Oct 18, Suspected Islamic
militants killed the education minister of Indian-controlled Kashmir
during a brazen raid days after top insurgents ordered a suspension of
attacks in the aftermath of South Asia's devastating earthquake.
(AP, 10/18/05)
2005 Oct 18, Gen’l. Musharraf
announced that Pakistan was ready to allow Kashmiris to cross the “line
of control,” dividing Indian and Pakistani controlled areas, to help
their families.
(Econ, 10/22/05, p.45)
2005 Oct 19, Two strong
aftershocks from the Oct 8 deadly earthquake shook South Asia,
unleashing landslides and setting off another wave of panic among
survivors of the disaster. A new tally from officials in India and
Pakistan pushed the death toll to 79,000.
(AP, 10/19/05)
2005 Oct 30, Pakistan and India
made an unprecedented agreement to open their heavily militarized
border in disputed Kashmir to aid the flow of relief goods and reunite
divided families in the aftermath of South Asia's colossal earthquake.
(AP, 10/30/05)
2005 Nov 2, In Kashmir 6 people
including a suicide bomber were killed and more than a dozen wounded in
a car bomb blast in the Nowgam area on the outskirts of Srinagar. "The
car bomb is our first gift to Ghulam Nabi Azad," who was to be sworn is
as the Kashmir's new chief minister, said Abu Qudama, spokesman for
Jaish-e-Mohammed.
(AP, 11/2/05)(Econ, 11/5/05, p.44)
2005 Nov 7, India and Pakistan
opened their frontier in Kashmir for earthquake relief, but police had
to fire tear gas to disperse protesters who were banned from taking
part in the symbolic crossing.
(AP, 11/7/05)
2005 Nov 14, In Kashmir a
gunbattle erupted in the main business district of Srinagar after
Muslim militants attacked a police compound, killing two civilians and
two soldiers and injuring six civilians.
(AP, 11/14/05)
2005 Nov 16, In Kashmir a car bomb
exploded in the main business district of Srinagar, the summer capital
of India's Jammu-Kashmir state, killing at least two people and
injuring 40.
(AP, 11/16/05)
2005 Nov 19, India and Pakistan
opened their disputed border in Kashmir for the first time in 58 years,
a temporary measure to allow divided families to check on each other
after the region's devastating earthquake.
(AP, 11/19/05)
2005 Dec 12, In Kashmir Indian
troops shot dead three Islamic militants, while suspected rebels shot
dead a shopkeeper in revolt-hit Kashmir.
(AFP, 12/12/05)
2005 Dec 30, Two Indian soldiers
were killed when they stepped on a land mine near the heavily fortified
frontier that divides Kashmir between longtime rivals India and
Pakistan.
(AP, 12/30/05)
2005 The conflict in Kashmir took
over 1,700 lives in this year. More than 90% were members of the
state’s Muslim majority.
(Econ, 5/6/06, p.43)
2006 Jan 20, A crowded bus veered
off a steep mountain road in Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing at
least 53 people.
(AP, 1/20/06)
2006 Jan 28, At least 8 people
were killed in a gunfight between Indian security forces and Kashmir
rebels.
(AP, 1/28/06)
2006 Feb 11, In Indian Kashmir 8
people, including three security personnel, were killed in separate
overnight clashes and rebel attacks. An Islamic separatist women's
group, known for its fierce opposition to Western-style romance, vowed
to prevent couples celebrating Valentine's Day.
(AFP, 2/11/06)
2006 Feb 25, In Indian Kashmir
Thousands of Shiite Muslims held noisy demonstrations for a third
straight day to protest the bombing of a revered shrine in Iraq.
(AP, 2/25/06)
2006 Apr 7, A bus skidded off a
narrow mountain road and plunged into a river in a remote region of
Indian Kashmir and dozens were feared dead.
(AP, 4/7/06)
2006 Apr 14, In Kashmir a series
of grenade attacks by suspected separatist rebels shook Srinagar,
killing five people and wounding at least 18.
(AP, 4/14/06)
2006 Apr 17, In Indian Kashmir 2
guards were killed and a politician injured in a gun attack by
suspected Islamic militants. The army announced it had arrested 10
rebels and killed two others.
(AFP, 4/17/06)
2006 Apr 30, Suspected Islamic
militants raided a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir and killed 22
Hindus, lining them outside their homes and shooting them
execution-style. Police found the bodies of 4 of 13 Hindu cattle
grazers who were abducted over the weekend by suspected Islamic
militants. 9 more bodies were found the next day.
(AFP, 5/1/06)(AP, 5/1/06)
2006 May 3, In New Delhi Muslim
separatists met India's prime minister for fresh peace talks on the
future of Kashmir. Hours before the talks were due to begin, four
rebels and three security men died in gunbattles in Kashmir.
(AP, 5/3/06)
2006 May 3, India and Pakistan
agreed to launch a truck service and a second passenger bus route this
summer linking the parts of Kashmir held by each country.
(AP, 5/3/06)
2006 May 5, In Srinagar a strike
and protests to force the government to reveal names of people caught
up in a prostitution scandal paralyzed the summer capital of Indian
Kashmir and injured 20 people. Civil servants and policemen had been
linked to a prostitution ring in which teenage girls had been drugged
and abducted to a brothel.
(AP, 5/5/06)(Econ, 4/14/07, p.46)
2006 May 13, In the
Indian-controlled portion of disputed Kashmir suspected Islamic
militants hurled a grenade at a Hindu political rally, killing two
people and wounding at least 35.
(AP, 5/13/06)
2006 May 18, In Indian Kashmir one
person was killed and 22 wounded in two grenade attacks by suspected
Islamic militants at busy markets.
(AFP, 5/18/06)
2006 May 21, Islamic militants
dressed as policemen hurled grenades and shot into a rally by the
ruling Congress party in India's portion of Kashmir, killing at least 7
people and wounding 22 others. Two attackers were killed.
(AFP, 5/21/06)
2006 May 25, In Kashmir PM
Manmohan Singh said his country was "committed" to living in harmony
with neighboring rival Pakistan and to resolving the issue of Kashmir
with a lasting peace treaty. As he left militants killed four people, a
man, two women and a child, in an explosion that blew up a bus carrying
Indian tourists.
(AP, 5/25/06)
2006 Jun 1, In Indian Kashmir a
3-day siege left 8 Muslim rebels and a paramilitary soldier dead as
troops hunted down armed rebels in ongoing operations.
(AP, 6/1/06)
2006 Jun 10, In Kashmir one person
died and eight were injured when Indian troops opened fire on villagers
protesting against the alleged desecration of a mosque by soldiers.
(AP, 6/10/06)
2006 Jun 12, In Indian Kashmir at
least nine people were killed in a series of attacks, including one
close to a camp housing Hindu pilgrims, while a boy died in police
firing. Suspected Islamic militants shot dead seven Indian laborers.
(Reuters, 6/12/06)(AP, 6/12/06)
2006 Jun 14-2006 Jun 15, In Indian
Kashmir suspected Islamic insurgents shot dead five Muslims, and
exploded a bomb that injured four people.
(AP, 6/15/06)
2006 Jun 16, In Indian Kashmir 2
civilians were killed and three policemen wounded when militants hurled
grenades and raked a police motorcade with AK assault rifle fire in
Srinagar’s northern Baramulla district.
(AFP, 6/17/06)
2006 Jun 17, In Indian Kashmir
suspected militants shot dead the owner of a public telephone office
and separately a former rebel who was working with counter-insurgency
police.
(AFP, 6/17/06)
2006 Jun 18, In the Himalayan
region of Indian Kashmir at least 23 people were killed and an equal
number hurt when a truck filled with workers plunged into a gorge.
(AFP, 6/18/06)
2006 Jun 20, A second bus service
rolled between the Indian and Pakistani zones of disputed Kashmir, a
move hailed as a boost for the peace process between the nuclear-armed
rivals.
(AP, 6/20/06)
2006 Jun 21, In Indian Kashmir 5
Hindu pilgrims were injured in a grenade attack on their bus by
suspected Islamic militants. A senior rebel and a political activist
were killed in separate incidents.
(AFP, 6/21/06)
2006 Jun 30, At least eight
suspected Islamic militants trying to cross into India's portion of
disputed Kashmir from the Pakistani side were killed during a
gunbattle. Federal security forces shot dead music composer Inayatullah
Bhat (31) near his home in Srinagar. The next day at least two dozen
people were hurt as thousands of protesters hurled bricks and stones in
a violent demonstration over his killing.
(AP, 6/30/06)(AFP, 7/1/06)
2006 Jul 3, In India's
Jammu-Kashmir state clashes between Indian government forces and
suspected Islamic separatist militants killed 13 people.
(AP, 7/3/06)
2006 Jul 8, In Indian Kashmir a
politician and four civilians died and at least 45 others were injured
when suspected Islamic rebels hurled a grenade outside a Muslim shrine.
(AFP, 7/8/06)
2006 Jul 11, In Kashmir a series
of grenade attacks killed eight people and wounded more than two dozen
in the Srinagar.
(AP, 7/11/06)
2006 Jul 22, Police said Mudassir,
a top Kashmiri militant commander blamed for dozens of attacks and
tourist killings, has been arrested in the Indian portion of Kashmir.
He was believed to be the chief planner of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a
Pakistan-based Islamic militant group linked to "25 incidents of
grenade attacks and other violent incidents.
(AP, 7/22/06)
2006 Jul 26, In Indian Kashmir 5
people were killed and 12 wounded, including nine in a tourist area, in
4 different gun battles.
(AFP, 7/26/06)
2006 Jul 29, A strike protesting
against a visit by India's president to Indian Kashmir shut much of the
region for a second day, while four soldiers were reportedly hurt in a
rebel attack.
(AFP, 7/29/06)
2006 Jul 30, In Indian Kashmir 6
people were killed in shootings and 10 wounded in a grenade attack on a
bus carrying Hindu pilgrims.
(AFP, 7/31/06)
2006 Jul 31, In Indian Kashmir
four rebels and a policeman were killed in three separate gunbattles in
southern Poonch and Pulwama districts.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2006 Aug 1, In Indian Kashmir 4
security personnel were killed in a shooting at a popular tourist spot.
(AP, 8/1/06)
2006 Aug 12, In Indian Kashmir 7
people, including two civilians mistaken by the army for Islamic
guerrillas, died as a strike paralyzed life in the region's main city.
(AFP, 8/12/06)
2006 Aug 16, In Kashmir 5 Islamic
rebels were shot dead by Indian troops after they sneaked across the de
facto border from the Pakistani zone. The army suffered one casualty.
(AP, 8/16/06)
2006 Aug 23, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir a crowded bus swerved off a steep mountain road and plunged
into a gorge, killing at least 16 people and injuring 35 others.
(AP, 8/23/06)
2006 Sep 9, In Indian Kashmir
suspected Muslim militants shot dead two policemen in an attack on a
police check post. They also looted arms and ammunition.
(AFP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 16, Pakistani President
Pervez Musharraf and Indian PM Manmohan Singh held "historic" talks on
the disputed Kashmir region, on the sidelines of a developing-world
summit in Havana. They also agreed to restart peace talks suspended
since train bombings killed more than 200 people in Mumbai in July.
(AFP, 9/16/06)(AP, 9/16/06)
2006 Sep 23, In Indian Kashmir
suspected militants shot dead a man and a woman near Srinagar. A border
guard hurt in a bomb explosion died the next day.
(AFP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 24, In Indian Kashmir 4
suspected Islamic militants were shot dead by troops in northern Uri
district in a gunbattle with troops. 2 more were killed in nearby
Bandipora.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Oct 7, India's army killed
five militants as they tried to sneak into the Indian portion of
Kashmir from Pakistan. Two soldiers were also killed in the gunbattle.
The head of a man from Gund Brath village, abducted the previous day,
was found on a road in nearby Sopore town. The body was recovered in a
different part of the town. A note tied to the man's head that said he
was beheaded because he allegedly worked as an informer for Indian
security forces.
(AP, 10/8/06)
2006 Oct 28, In the
Indian-controlled section of Kashmir 3 Indian border guards and 18
civilians were injured when suspected Islamic rebels hurled a grenade
in a busy market.
(AFP, 10/28/06)
2006 Nov 2, India's army chief has
ordered an investigation into a string of recent incidents of soldiers
fatally shooting their colleagues in India's insurgency-wracked portion
of Kashmir. There have been at least four cases over the past 10 days
of distraught soldiers in Kashmir shooting colleagues to death, then
committing suicide.
(AP, 11/2/06)
2006 Nov 5, In the
Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir 4 members of a family and two
suspected Islamic militants were killed in separate incidents.
(AP, 11/6/06)
2006 Nov 9, In Pakistan's part of
Kashmir 5 high-school students who mistook a bomblet for a toy were
fatally wounded when the explosive went off as they played with it in a
field.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 10, Suspected militants
hurled a grenade into a crowd outside a mosque in a village in Indian
Kashmir, killing at least five people and wounding nearly 30.
(AP, 11/10/06)
2006 Nov 14, Nuclear-armed India
and Pakistan resumed peace talks with alleged Pakistan-sponsored
terrorism high on the agenda as a car bomb exploded in revolt-hit
Indian Kashmir, injuring 16 people.
(AP, 11/14/06)
2006 Nov 30, Indian troops shot
dead four Islamic militants in revolt-hit Kashmir, including a
commander (Ali Baba alias Abu Hufeza) believed to have been involved in
last year's bombings in New Delhi.
(AFP, 12/1/06)
2006 Dec 5, Pakistan President
Gen. Pervez Musharraf said he is willing to give up its claim to all of
Kashmir if India agrees that the disputed Himalayan region should
become self-governing and largely autonomous. Troops shot dead three
Islamic militants in Indian Kashmir, while 19 civilians were injured
and a guerrilla was killed in a grenade blast.
(AP, 12/5/06)(AFP, 12/5/06)
2006 Dec 28, In Indian Kashmir 9
people including five Islamic rebels were killed and 10 injured in
separate incidents over the last 2 days.
(AP, 12/28/06)
2007 Jan 5, In Pakistan's part of
Kashmir a landslide triggered by recent heavy rains swamped a minibus
and a car on a narrow mountainous road, killing 15 people and injuring
three others.
(AP, 1/6/07)
2007 Jan, Police in India’s Jammu
& Kashmir state turned up 5 bodies of Kashmiris buried as Pakistani
militants. 8 police officers in the Ganderbal district were arrested
including Hansraj Parihar, Ganderbal’s top policeman.
(Econ, 2/17/07, p.44)
2007 Feb 10, In Indian Kashmir 2
suspected Muslim rebels and a civilian died in a gunbattle with troops
when militants opened fire on an army patrol.
(AFP, 2/10/07)
2007 Feb 11, Indian Kashmir was
hit by clashes between police and protesters as separatists held a
general strike marking the anniversary of the execution of a prominent
rebel.
(AP, 2/11/07)
2007 Feb 28, In Kashmir Indian
officials charged 7 policemen in Srinagar with murdering a man and
claiming he was an Islamic militant, the first charges in an alleged
plot by officers to kill innocent people and earn rewards.
(AP, 2/28/07)
2007 Mar 1, Avalanches and
landslides in Kashmir forced Indian security teams to airlift thousands
of people to safe areas, while at least eight Pakistani soldiers were
feared dead after they were buried under a snowslide near the Afghan
border.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 7, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir cable operators said 4 foreign television channels have been
pulled from the air after Islamic militant groups demanded cable
companies stop airing "obscene" shows.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 20, Heavy rains triggered
landslides that buried three homes in Pakistan's portion of Kashmir,
leaving 31 people dead.
(AP, 3/21/07)
2007 Apr 7, The 17-year insurgency
in Kashmir continued with an average of 3 lives lost every day. India
had an estimated 600,000 soldiers and paramilitary police stationed in
Jammu & Kashmir state.
(Econ, 4/7/07, p.14)
2007 Apr 21, In Indian-held
Kashmir police found the bodies of 2 Hindus with their throats slit, as
hundreds protested the killing of a Muslim woman.
(AFP, 4/22/07)
2007 Jun 1, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir suspected Islamic militants attacked a paramilitary camp, a
police post and an army vehicle in an upsurge in violence, killing
three government soldiers and wounding another 22.
(AP, 6/1/07)
2007 Jun 7, It was reported that
police and security forces in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir
have destroyed hundreds of acres of poppy fields and arrested 125
people.
(AP, 6/7/07)
2007 Jun 9, Indian officials said
a group claiming to represent the al-Qaida terror network declared a
holy war on India over its partial control of the divided Himalayan
region of Kashmir.
(AP, 6/9/07)
2007 Jun 24, In Indian Kashmir 3
suspected Muslim rebels were shot dead trying to cross from the
Pakistan side of the divided state. The region's main guerrilla group
vowed to continue attacks and shun peace talks. A landmine attack by
rebels on an Indian police convoy wounded 10 on the outskirts of
Srinagar.
(AFP, 6/24/07)
2007 Jul 7, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir protesters clashed with police in Srinagar a day after a
teenager was killed when police fired on a crowd protesting alleged
human rights abuses.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2007 Jul 20, Suspected Islamic
rebels attacked Hindu pilgrims with hand grenades for the second time
in a week in India's portion of Kashmir, wounding 11 people.
(AP, 7/21/07)
2007 Sep 11, In Kashmir 20 people
were hurt when thousands of Kashmiri protesters clashed with Indian
police over the killing of an alleged militant who they say was just a
college student. Police said Mohammed Ramzan Shah (20) died during a
gunfight Sep 11 in the state's northern Kupwara district. Shah's
brother said "He was arrested by the army Sep 10 when he was on his way
to attend a function at his aunt's place."
(AFP, 9/11/07)
2007 Sep 25, In Indian Kashmir 5
suspected Muslim militants and a policeman were killed in three
gunbattles in Poonch, Kupwara and Kulgam districts.
(AFP, 9/26/07)
2007 Sep 26, In Indian Kashmir 4
suspected Muslim militants were killed as they crossed into southern
Poonch and northern Kupwara districts from the Pakistani-zone of the
divided state. Government troops also shot dead two "wanted" commanders
of the pro-Pakistan rebel group Hizbul Mujahedin in southern Doda
district.
(AFP, 9/26/07)
2007 Oct 19,
In Indian Kashmir Rawathpora village residents claimed that
Indian soldiers detained teacher Abdul Rashid Mir (26) outside a
school, then tortured and fatally shot him while he was in custody. The
Indian army said Mir was accidentally shot after he got into a squabble
with an army patrol team. Violence quickly erupted.
(AP, 10/20/07)
2007 Oct 20, In Indian Kashmir
thousands of angry Rawathpora villagers torched government vehicles in
street battles that injured 30 police one day after army soldiers
allegedly shot dead a schoolteacher.
(AP, 10/20/07)
2007 Nov 6, In Kashmir a 4-day
gunbattle began that left five Islamic militants and four Indian
soldiers killed.
(AFP, 11/9/07)
2007 Dec 15, In Kashmir one person
was killed when police fired on hundreds of students calling for a
college to be set up in their town. The protest in Magam township, 30
kilometers (18 miles) west of Srinagar, came a day after the Kashmir
government said it would set up 18 new colleges across the
insurgency-racked state. Magam was not included.
(AFP, 12/15/07)
2007 Dec 16, In the Indian portion
of Kashmir hundreds of people clashed with police, hours after burying
a 20-year-old man killed by police a day earlier. At least 35 people
were injured.
(AP, 12/16/07)
2007 Dec 24, In Indian Kashmir 5
worshippers were being held hostage inside a mosque for a second day by
Muslim rebels as security forces sought to end siege peacefully. Indian
forces killed three suspected Islamic militants ending the two-day
hostage standoff and sparking angry protests that injured dozens of
people.
(AFP, 12/24/07)(AP, 12/25/07)
2008 Feb 8, In the
Indian-controlled part of Kashmir avalanches killed at least eight
people and forced hundreds more to leave their snowbound villages.
(AP, 2/8/08)
2008 Mar 6, Officials said
authorities in Indian Kashmir have begun poisoning stray dogs in an
anti-rabies drive that aims to kill some 100,000 dogs in the region's
main city.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 21, In Indian Kashmir two
boys, aged five and 14, were killed when a hand grenade they mistook
for a toy exploded.
(AP, 3/21/08)
2008 Mar 23, In Indian Kashmir 4
policemen and a senior member of a hardline Islamic militant group were
killed in a fierce gun battle near Srinagar.
(AP, 3/23/08)
2008 Apr 5, In Kashmir police
fired tear gas to break up a protest by stone-throwing demonstrators
against alleged prison abuses as a strike paralyzed life in revolt-hit
Srinagar.
(AFP, 4/5/08)
2008 May 11, Indian forces and
suspected Islamic militants clashed in two separate incidents in
Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing six people, including two civilians
and a news photographer.
(AP, 5/11/08)
2008 May 21, India and Pakistan
signed a pact in Islamabad granting consular access to prisoners in
each other's jails but reported no significant progress in negotiations
on the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
(AP, 5/21/08)
2008 May, Kashmir’s state
government gave the overseers of the Hindu Amarnath shrine the right to
build facilities on 98 acres along the route to the shrine. Separatist
politicians portrayed this as loss of territory and rouse violent
protests, which eventually forced the government to change its mind,
which in turn infuriated the Hindus.
(Econ, 8/16/08, p.33)
2008 Jun 13, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir Islamic rebels ambushed an army vehicle and killed five Indian
soldiers, including two senior officers.
(AP, 6/14/08)
2008 Jun 24, Sixty people were
hurt in Indian Kashmir in escalating protests about the handing over of
land to Hindu pilgrims visiting the Muslim-majority region.
(AFP, 6/24/08)
2008 Jun 25, Police in
Muslim-majority Indian Kashmir fought running battles with protesters
for the third consecutive day as anger mounted over the provision of
land to Hindu pilgrims.
(AP, 6/25/08)
2008 Jun 26, Tens of thousands of
Kashmiris filled the streets for a fourth day of protests, after police
killings during earlier demonstrations enflamed their anger over the
transfer of land to a Hindu shrine in this Muslim-majority region.
(AP, 6/26/08)
2008 Jun 27, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir tens of thousands of angry demonstrators filled the streets,
burning flags and effigies of Indian leaders on the fifth day of
protests against the transfer of land to a Hindu shrine in the
Muslim-majority region.
(AP, 6/27/08)
2008 Jun 28, In Indian Kashmir at
least 50 people were injured when police and protesters clashed for a
sixth day as resistance to the transfer of land to a Hindu pilgrim
group deepened.
(AP, 6/28/08)
2008 Jun 30, In Indian Kashmir
shops, schools and offices remained shut for the eighth day running as
protesters demanded formal revocation of an order to hand over land to
a Hindu pilgrim body.
(AFP, 6/30/08)
2008 Jul 1, In Muslim majority
Indian-held Kashmir authorities reversed a controversial plan to
transfer land to a Hindu shrine as Muslim and Hindu protesters held
massive rallies across the region assailing the state government for
its handling of the politically sensitive issue.
(AP, 7/1/08)
2008 Jul 2, In Kashmir the Indian
army said 11 Muslim rebels and an Indian soldier have been killed in
two days of fierce fighting in a district bordering the Pakistani part
of the disputed state.
(AFP, 7/2/08)
2008 Jul 4, Fierce fighting raged
in India's portion of Kashmir, killing five army soldiers and a
suspected Muslim rebel near the de facto border with Pakistan.
(AP, 7/4/08)
2008 Jul 5, In Kashmir thousands
of protesters clashed with police in Srinagar over allegations that
government forces set fire to Jenab Sahib, a local Muslim shrine.
(AP, 7/5/08)
2008 Jul 7, In Indian Kashmir
Ghulam Nabi Azad, the chief minister said he was stepping down
following protests over the government’s handling of the transfer of
government land to the Shiri Amarnath Shrine Board, a trust running the
revered Hindu shrine.
(WSJ, 7/8/08, p.A12)
2008 Jul 13, In Indian Kashmir 10
people were hurt when police had to fire shots in the air and use tear
gas to disperse a crowd that was attacking pro-India politicians.
(AP, 7/13/08)
2008 Jul 18, Suspected Muslim
rebels threw a grenade at a crowded bus terminal in the Indian portion
of Kashmir, wounding 35 people, including seven children.
(AP, 7/19/08)
2008 Jul 19, In Kashmir at least
10 Indian soldiers were killed and 14 others injured when their bus was
hit by an improvised explosive device in the disputed Himalayan region.
(AFP, 7/19/08)(SSFC, 7/20/08, p.A2)
2008 Jul 24, In Indian Kashmir a
suspected Islamic militant threw a hand grenade at a group of migrant
laborers, killing a woman and her four children in one of two attacks
that claimed a total of nine lives.
(AP, 7/24/08)
2008 Jul 29, Indian and Pakistani
soldiers traded fire across the heavily armed Kashmir frontier for more
than 12 hours overnight and into the day in what the Indian army called
the worst violation of a 2003 cease-fire agreement between the
nuclear-armed neighbors.
(AP, 7/29/08)
2008 Aug 4, Indian officials
pledged to stop Hindus from imposing an economic blockade on the mainly
Muslim Kashmir valley as tensions heightened with the deaths of
protesters. Police opened fire at hundreds of stone-throwing Hindu
protesters angry over a government decision to not transfer land to a
Hindu shrine, killing two people. A Muslim protester was also killed by
a tear gas shell.
(AFP, 8/4/08)(AP, 8/4/08)(WSJ, 8/6/08, p.A10)
2008 Aug 6, In Indian Kashmir a
Hindu protester was shot dead in army firing as Premier Manmohan Singh
was due to hold talks with political parties in a bid to defuse
tensions in the region.
(AP, 8/6/08)
2008 Aug 11, Indian troops shot
dead Sheikh Abdul Aziz (52), a prominent Kashmiri separatist leader,
and three other protesters. The shooting came as Indian security forces
tried to prevent about 100,000 Muslims from marching towards the de
facto border with Pakistan.
(AFP, 8/11/08)
2008 Aug 12, Indian security
forces shot dead 15 Muslim demonstrators in Kashmir amid a wave of
anger against New Delhi's control over the disputed region.
(AP, 8/12/08)(Econ, 8/23/08, p.33)
2008 Aug 13, Riots erupted across
Indian-controlled Kashmir as Muslims mourned 15 people killed in a day
of bloody violence, as the protests spread to other parts of India.
Indian police say they have issued orders to shoot protesters defying a
curfew in the town of Kishtwar in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
(AP, 8/13/08)
2008 Aug 14, Thousands of Muslims
poured into the streets of Kashmir, demanding independence from India
hours after archival Pakistan called on the United Nations to stop what
it characterized as gross human rights violations in the divided
Himalayan region. Police shot dead another protester, bringing the
death toll from days of rioting to 22 as security was boosted on the
eve of India's Independence Day celebrations.
(AP, 8/14/08)(AFP, 8/14/08)
2008 Aug 15, In India's part of
Kashmir tens of thousands of Muslims took to the streets again,
ignoring a plea by the country's prime minister for an end to weeks of
violence that has left 34 people dead.
(AP, 8/15/08)
2008 Aug 16, Tens of thousands of
Muslims marched in India's portion of Kashmir in honor of a prominent
separatist leader killed in a recent wave of violence that has rocked
the volatile Himalayan region.
(AP, 8/16/08)
2008 Aug 18, Tens of thousands of
Muslims waving green and black protest flags gathered in Indian
Kashmir's main city for a march to UN offices demanding freedom from
India and intervention by the world body.
(AP, 8/18/08)
2008 Aug 22, In Indian Kashmir
hundreds of thousands of Muslims marched in Srinagar in the largest
protest against Indian rule in over a decade. Police estimated the
crowd at 275,000.
(AP, 8/22/08)(SFC, 8/23/08, p.A8)
2008 Aug 24, In Kashmir soldiers
and police fired at Muslim protesters demanding an end to Indian rule
killing one person, as authorities arrested top separatist leaders in a
bid to quash unrest that has left at least 37 people dead since June.
(AP, 8/25/08)(SFC, 8/25/08, p.A3)
2008 Aug 27, In
Indian-administered Kashmir police traded fire with militants allegedly
holding 8 people hostage, including 6 children, in a building in Jammu.
3 soldiers and 3 civilians died in the violence. The militants had
illegally crossed into Indian Kashmir from Pakistan a day earlier.
(AP, 8/27/08)(AP, 8/28/08)
2008 Aug 28, In Indian Kashmir
Government forces ended a hostage crisis in the mainly Hindu city of
Jammu when they killed the last of three rebels believed to have seized
eight people. 2 hostages died in the gunbattle.
(AP, 8/28/08)
2008 Sep 6, In Indian Kashmir
thousands of angry people took to the streets to denounce the killing
of a protester by government troops, who fired rubber bullets and tear
gas shells at Muslim demonstrators chanting anti-India slogans.
(AP, 9/6/08)
2008 Sep 12, Tens of thousands of
Muslims joined pro-independence rallies across Indian-controlled
Kashmir, leading to scattered clashes with police that left at least
two protesters dead and dozens injured.
(AP, 9/12/08)
2008 Oct 10, Police in Srinagar
shot and killed two people and at least four protesters were wounded,
as thousands of Muslims took to the streets of Indian Kashmir to
protest the visit of India's prime minister.
(AP, 10/10/08)
2008 Oct 11, India's PM Singh
launched Kashmir's first train service, the fruit of an eight-year
project that overcame tough terrain and rebel strife, on a visit
overshadowed by violence. Shops, businesses and schools were shut to
protest Singh’s visit.
(AFP, 10/11/08)(AP, 10/12/08)
2008 Oct 21, In Kashmir trucks
laden with fruit, honey, garments and spices crossed the heavily armed
frontier as India and Pakistan opened a trade route between the two
sides of the divided region for the first time in six decades.
(AP, 10/21/08)
2008 Oct 26, Government troops in
Indian Kashmir opened fire on hundreds of angry protesters demanding
the release of several people arrested during a recent strike, killing
one and wounding at least three others.
(AP, 10/26/08)
2008 Nov 16, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir a bridge under construction over an icy Himalayan river
collapsed, killing four workers and leaving 19 others missing and
feared dead.
(AP, 11/16/08)
2008 Nov 17, Large crowds voted in
some towns in Indian Kashmir while protesters clashed with police in
others as state elections began amid boycott calls by Muslim
separatists.
(AP, 11/17/08)
2008 Nov 23, In Indian Kashmir
turnout was high for a 2nd round of voting despite boycott calls by
Muslim separatists and clashes in some towns between protesters and
security forces.
(AP, 11/23/08)
2008 Dec 7, Large crowds voted in
several towns in Indian Kashmir, while separatists in other areas
boycotted the polls and clashed with government forces in the fourth
phase of state elections in the disputed Himalayan region.
(AP, 12/7/08)
2008 Dec 7, Security forces
overran a militant camp on the outskirts of Pakistani Kashmir's main
city and seized Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, an alleged mastermind of the
attacks that shook India's financial capital last month. At least 11
others were seized at the camp run by the banned group Laskhar-e-Taiba.
(AP, 12/8/08)
2008 Dec 13, Voters cast their
ballots in the fifth phase of state elections in Indian Kashmir as
scattered clashes between protesters and government forces left one
person dead.
(AP, 12/13/08)
2008 Dec 17, In Indian Kashmir
thousands of security forces patrolled towns to protect voters in state
elections. Muslim separatists urged residents to boycott the vote and
called for a general strike.
(AP, 12/17/08)
2008 Dec 21, India arrested 3
suspected Islamic militants, including a Pakistani soldier, for
allegedly planning a suicide attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The
suspects were members of Jaish-e-Mohammed, one of more than a dozen
groups fighting since 1989 to oust India from Kashmir.
(SFC, 12/24/08, p.A5)
2008 Dec 24, In Indian Kashmir
police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters, where tens of
thousands of soldiers were deployed for the 7th and final leg of
multi-stage state elections.
(AFP, 12/24/08)
2008 Dec 28, Indian PM Manmohan
Singh called the higher than expected turnout in elections in disputed
Kashmir a "vote for democracy," as results showed no one party
dominated the polls.
(AP, 12/28/08)
2008 Dec 30, In Indian Kashmir the
National Conference, which with 28 seats won more than any other party,
and the Congress party, which won 17, struck an agreement to form a new
coalition, giving them a majority in the state parliament.
(AP, 12/30/08)
2009 Jan 4, In a densely
forested region of Indian Kashmir a gun battle between government
forces and suspected Islamic insurgents raged for a fourth day leaving
at least seven combatants killed.
(AP, 1/4/09)
2009 Jan 5, In Indian Kashmir Omar
Abdullah (38), a young pro-India Muslim, was sworn in as the new chief
minister after elections that attracted a higher turnout than many
politicians and voters expected.
(AFP, 1/5/09)
2009 Jan 14, Police in
Indian-controlled Kashmir said they have arrested Mohammed Ahsan Dar,
the founder and commander of the region's largest rebel group, calling
it a major setback for the separatists.
(AP, 1/14/09)
2009 Feb 21, In Kashmir two men
were killed when soldiers opened fire after a group of Kashmiri youths
hurled stones at them and chanted anti-India slogans. On March 21 the
Indian army said it would punish three soldiers for their role in the
shooting.
(AFP, 3/21/09)
2009 Mar 25, The Indian army said
it had killed 17 militants from Lashkar-e-Taiba in Kashmir. Recent
fighting has left at least 25 people dead.
(AP, 3/26/09)
2009 Feb 25, A passenger bus
plunged into a river in the Indian part of Kashmir, killing at least 33
people.
(AP, 2/25/09)
2009 Apr 11, Sajad Lone (41), an
outspoken Kashmiri separatist and head of the People's Conference, said
he would run in India's elections starting next week, marking a radical
departure for the movement which has until now boycotted polls.
(AFP, 4/11/09)
2009 Apr 14, In Himalayan Kashmir
an avalanche hit an Indian army post, killing 7 soldiers.
(AP, 4/14/09)
2009 May 7, In Kashmir scores of
protesters clashed with government troops in Srinagar as residents went
to the polls in the disputed Himalayan region and other Indian key
states in a monthlong parliamentary election.
(AP, 5/7/09)
2009 May 8, Indian police used
teargas and batons to disperse hundreds of rock-throwing Kashmiris
protesting against the holding of national elections in the revolt-hit
region.
(AP, 5/8/09)
2009 May 29, In Kashmir the bodies
of two young women (17 & 22) were found in Shopian town. The
pregnant wife of Shakeel Ahmed Ahangar and his teenage sister were
allegedly raped and murdered by Indian soldiers.
(Reuters, 6/20/09)(Econ, 6/27/09, p.48)
2009 May 30, In Indian Kashmir
massive protests and clashes erupted after the bodies of two young
women were found amid claims that they were raped and murdered by
Indian soldiers.
(AP, 5/30/09)
2009 May 31, In Indian Kashmir
more than 40 people were wounded as clashes continued for a 2nd day
between Indian police and Kashmiris demonstrating over the recent
deaths of two young Muslim women.
(AFP, 5/31/09)
2009 Jun 6, In Kashmir protesters
clashed with police as a separatist strike over the alleged rape and
murder of two young Muslim women paralyzed Indian Kashmir for a sixth
day.
(AP, 6/6/09)
2009 Jun 8, In Indian Kashmir
security forces opened fire on protesters, wounding at least seven
people, including two critically, in the worst clash since unrest broke
out last week over the deaths of two young women.
(AP, 6/8/09)
2009 Jun 9, In Indian Kashmir 30
protesters were hurt when police fired shots in the air and teargas
during fresh protests over the alleged rape and murder of two Muslim
women.
(AFP, 6/9/09)
2009 Jun 12, Indian Home Minister
P. Chidambaran, speaking in Srinagar, said India is to phase out the
controversial presence of large numbers of its troops in towns across
the Muslim-majority Kashmir region. Indian troops and paramilitaries
were thought to number up to 500,000.
(AFP, 6/12/09)
2009 Jun 20, Kashmir valley closed
down in the latest protest over the alleged rape and murder of two
Muslim women that has triggered massive anti-India demonstrations in
the disputed Himalayan region.
(AP, 6/20/09)
2009 Jun 22, In Kashmir 4 Indian
police officials were suspended over their handling of a rape and
murder case that has sent shockwaves through the disputed
Muslim-majority region.
(AFP, 6/22/09)
2009 Jun 24, In Indian-ruled
Kashmir thousands of people defied a ban on protest marches with a
fresh demonstration over the alleged rape and murder of two young
Muslim women by Indian troops.
(AFP, 6/24/09)
2009 Jun 26, In Kashmir a Taliban
suicide bomber blew himself up near an army vehicle, killing at least
two soldiers in the first such assault in Pakistan's part of divided
Kashmir, marking an escalation in the militant campaign against
security forces.
(AP, 6/26/09)
2009 Jul 3, In Kashmir police used
batons and tear gas to break up fresh anti-India protests, with more
than two dozen people injured in the clashes in Srinagar and Baramullah.
(AFP, 7/3/09)
2009 Jul 8, Protesters in Indian
Kashmir set fire to a police van and stoned other security vehicles
after the body of a missing young man was recovered in the regional
capital Srinagar.
(AFP, 7/8/09)
2009 Jul 15, A court in Indian-run
Kashmir ordered the arrest of four police officers for allegedly
destroying evidence in the rape and murder of two women that triggered
violent protests last month.
(AP, 7/15/09)
2009 Aug 8, India’s army said its
troops killed three Islamic militants along the de facto Kashmir
border, thwarting the seventh attempt by rebels to infiltrate from
Pakistan in a week.
(AFP, 8/8/09)
2009 Aug 20, The Association of
Parents of Disappeared People (APDP) said their workers have discovered
several unmarked graves containing about 1,500 unidentified bodies in
Indian Kashmir, and alleged that some of corpses were likely innocent
people killed by government forces. APDP said at least eight of the
graves held more than one body.
(AP, 8/20/09)
2009 Sep 12, In
Indian-administered Kashmir suspected Islamic militants set off a
powerful bomb blast killing three people and wounding at least seven
others.
(AP, 9/12/09)
2009 Sep 17, In
Pakistan-controlled Kashmir a speeding bus, whose driver apparently was
eager to break his daylong Ramadan fast, spun out of control and
plunged off a mountainous road, killing 25 people and injuring 30
others.
(AP, 9/17/09)
2009 Oct 29, India banned pre-paid
mobile telephones in Kashmir, following concerns that militants were
using them to trigger bombs and hide their identities.
(AFP, 10/30/09)
2009 Nov 2, In Kashmir the bodies
of 2 senior rebels, mauled to death by a wild bear, were recovered.
Police said they were members of the region's most powerful group,
Hizbul Mujahedin and had been active in Indian Kashmir for more than
six years.
(AFP, 11/3/09)
2009 Nov 14, Indian troops shot
dead five suspected Islamic militants as they tried to enter Indian
Kashmir from the Pakistani side of the disputed state.
(AFP, 11/14/09)
2009 Nov 21, In Pakistani Kashmir
3 suspected Taliban militants blew themselves up as police chased them.
(Reuters, 11/21/09)
2009 Dec 2, Researchers from the
International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice, an Indian
Kashmir-based rights group, issue a report titled “buried Evidence.” It
said nearly 2,600 bodies have been discovered in single unmarked and
mass graves throughout mountainous Indian Kashmir. They found the
graves in 55 villages during a three-year survey that concluded last
month.
(AP, 12/2/09)
2009 Dec 4, Fazal Haque Qureshi
(64), an Indian Kashmiri separatist leader who supports talks with New
Delhi over the restive region's future, was critically wounded by
unknown attackers.
(AFP, 12/5/09)
2009 Dec 18, India said it has
withdrawn 30,000 soldiers from Kashmir as rebel attacks decreased over
the past two years. Hundreds of thousands are believed to remain in the
heavily militarized region also claimed by Pakistan.
(AP, 12/18/09)
2009 Dec 26, In Indian Kashmir
some 40 people were injured when police fired teargas and used batons
to break up banned religious processions by Shiite Muslims.
(AP, 12/26/09)
2009 Dec 28, In Pakistan a suicide
bomber in Karachi targeted Pakistan's largest procession of Shiite
Muslims on their holiest day, killing 44 people and wounding dozens
more in defiance of a major security crackdown. In
Pakistan-administered Kashmir a suicide bomber attacked a Shiite
procession in Muzaffarabad, killing 8 people and wounding another 80.
(AFP, 12/28/09)(AP, 1/1/10)(AP, 1/6/10)
2010 Jan 6, In Indian Kashmir
suspected Muslim militants opened fire in the main market area of
Srinagar, killing one police officer and sending residents running for
cover. A suicide bomber struck an army facility in the
Pakistan-controlled portion of Kashmir, killing four soldiers and
wounding 11 others in an area where such attacks are rare.
(AFP, 1/6/10)(AP, 1/6/10)
2010 Jan 7, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir government forces ended a 20-hour gunbattle with suspected
rebels in Srinagar, shooting and killing the two attackers who
paralyzed the region's main city.
(AP, 1/7/10)
2010 Jan 8, Government forces in
Indian Kashmir killed two suspected rebels in a gunbattle. The fighting
started after troops cordoned off a house in Khrew village after
receiving a tip that suspected militants were hiding there.
(AP, 1/8/10)
2010 Jan 16, In the Pakistani
section of Kashmir a suicide bomber attacked an army vehicle, wounding
two soldiers.
(AP, 1/16/10)
2010 Jan 29, In the
Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir suspected Muslim rebels ambushed
army soldiers, killing two troops.
(AP, 1/29/10)
2010 Jan 31, In the
Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir Wamiq Farooq (14), a Muslim boy,
died after being struck by a shell fired by police to quell a
demonstration by separatists in Srinagar.
(AFP, 2/2/10)(AP, 2/13/10)
2010 Feb 2, In Kashmir Indian
police and Muslim protesters clashed for the second day running over
the death of a Muslim boy killed by a police tear-gas shell.
(AFP, 2/2/10)
2010 Feb 5, In Indian Kashmir
paramilitary soldiers charged at a group gathered in a playground in
Srinagar, and began firing as they fled, killing Zahid Farooq Shah
(17). The incident threatened to enflame protests that have rocked the
city following the death of another boy on Jan 31.
(AP, 2/5/10)
2010 Feb 8, In Kashmir 17 Indian
soldiers were killed in an avalanche that slammed into a group of 70
combat troops at a high-altitude warfare training camp.
(AP, 2/8/10)
2010 Feb 13, Fourteen Indian
border guards were suspended for suspected involvement in the Feb 5
shooting death of Zahid Farooq Shah (17) in the Indian-ruled portion of
Kashmir.
(AP, 2/13/10)
2010 Mar 14, In Kashmir 6
policemen were hurt when suspected separatist militants attacked their
patrol with a grenade in Indian Kashmir's main city of Srinagar.
(AP, 3/14/10)
2010 Mar 16, In Indian Kashmir 2
civilians and a policeman were killed and 8 other people wounded when
suspected militants attacked police patrols at two major markets in
Sopore and Srinagar.
(AFP, 3/16/10)
2010 Mar 23, Pakistani hardliners
vowed to wage a holy war to liberate the disputed Himalayan state of
Kashmir from Indian control.
(AFP, 3/23/10)
2010 Mar 31, In Kashmir 4 Indian
soldiers and 10 separatist guerrillas were killed in clashes, the
highest number of people killed in firefights in 24 hours in recent
months.
(AP, 4/1/10)
2010 Apr 13, In Indian Kashmir one
person was killed and 24 hurt during a strike to protest the conviction
of six Muslims, including a Kashmiri separatist, for a 1996 bombing in
New Delhi.
(AFP, 4/13/10)
2010 Apr 16, India banned some
phone users in insurgency-hit Kashmir from sending SMS text messages,
causing anger on the streets and provoking the wrath of the volatile
region's chief minister. Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah termed
the ban "harassment."
(AFP, 4/16/10)
2010 May 6, In Kashmir a fierce
gunbattle between Muslim rebels and Indian security forces in the
Indian-controlled portion killed six insurgents and two soldiers.
(AP, 5/7/10)
2010 May 14, In Indian Kashmir 4
policemen and 2 civilians were injured in a grenade attack by suspected
Muslim militants, minutes after protesters and police clashed.
(AFP, 5/14/10)
2010 May 21, In Indian Kashmir
thousands of people turned out to pay tribute to two slain separatist
leaders as a one-day strike called to mark the occasion closed shops
and businesses.
(AFP, 5/21/10)
2010 May 29, Police in Indian
Kashmir fired teargas to disperse thousands of villagers protesting
against what they said was the staged killing of three Muslims by the
security forces.
(AFP, 5/29/10)
2010 Jun 11, In Kashmir a cycle of
protests began after Tufail Ahmed Mattoo (17) was killed by a tear gas
shell near Srinagar’s main mosque.
(Econ, 7/10/10, p.42)(Econ, 8/7/10, p.38)
2010 Jun 20, Indian troops fired
on hundreds of demonstrators who tried to torch a paramilitary bunker
in Kashmir, killing one person and wounding at least five. More were
injured in subsequent clashes.
(AP, 6/20/10)
2010 Jun 24, Indian authorities
arrested a key separatist leader and 40 other activists in a bid to
quell spiraling protests in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
(AP, 6/24/10)
2010 Jun 27, In Indian Kashmir
another man was killed when paramilitary forces fired rubber bullets to
disperse protesters who had defied a strict curfew.
(AFP, 6/27/10)
2010 Jun 28, In Indian Kashmir 2
separatist protesters were killed when security forces opened fire to
disperse angry demonstrations.
(AFP, 6/28/10)
2010 Jun 29, In Indian Kashmir
police and paramilitary troops fired on thousands of anti-India
protesters, killing at least three people in Anantnag in the worst
street violence in a year.
(AP, 6/29/10)
2010 Jul 6, In Indian Kashmir one
person was killed by drowning while fleeing security forces and a woman
(25) was killed by a stray bullet at the window of her home.
(Econ, 7/10/10, p.42)
2010 Jul 7, In Indian Kashmir 2
people were killed and anger increased when security forces beat
people in funeral processions.
(Econ, 7/10/10, p.42)
2010 Jul 9, In Indian-ruled
Kashmir thousands of residents defied a strict curfew prompting police
to fire rubber bullets and lob tear gas as fresh rebel attacks injured
two policemen. Government forces arrested dozens of suspected
separatists in an attempt to stem civil unrest.
(AP, 7/9/10)
2010 Jul 11, In Kashmir a rigid
curfew was lifted from most of the country, but shops and businesses
remained shut after separatists called for a strike to protest Indian
rule in the Himalayan region.
(AP, 7/11/10)
2010 Jul 12, In Indian Kashmir
shops, schools and offices were shut for a second day as politicians
met to discuss how to end weeks of violent and deadly street protests
against security forces.
(AFP, 7/12/10)
2010 Jul 13, In Muzaffarabad,
Kashmir, PM Raja Farooq Haider Khan, the top official in Pakistan-held
Kashmir, vowed to fight India for control of the disputed territory in
a speech to thousands of people assembled by a coalition of banned
militant groups.
(AP, 7/13/10)
2010 Jul 16, In Indian Kashmir
hundreds of anti-India protesters clashed with police and paramilitary
soldiers despite a rigid curfew being reimposed in most of Kashmir
following weeks of unrest that has killed 15 people.
(AP, 7/16/10)
2010 Jul 23, In Indian Kashmir
security forces fired teargas at stone-throwing protesters as fresh
protests against Indian rule broke out. A minibus veered off a mountain
road under construction and plunged into a river, killing at least 17
people.
(AP, 7/23/10)(AP, 7/24/10)
2010 Jul 30, In Indian Kashmir
paramilitary soldiers fired on thousands of demonstrators, killing
three men and wounding at least 80 others as protests against Indian
rule spread across the disputed region.
(AP, 7/30/10)
2010 Jul 31, Across Indian Kashmir
violence continued to rage with two people shot dead and five wounded
after police in two towns opened fire on protesters who attacked their
camps and pelted them with rocks.
(AP, 7/31/10)
2010 Aug 1, In Indian Kashmir two
men and a girl were killed after security forces opened fire at
thousands of protesters who defied a curfew, as pro-independence
protests spread across the region.
(AFP, 8/1/10)
2010 Aug 2, Omar Abdullah, the
chief minister of Indian Kashmir, held crisis talks on the "cycle of
violence" afflicting the region, as five more protesters died, taking
the death toll to 37 in two months.
(AFP, 8/2/10)
2010 Aug 3, In Indian Kashmir 4
more demonstrators died as new protests erupted in defiance of pleas
for calm from the region's chief minister.
(AFP, 8/3/10)
2010 Aug 4, In Kashmir tens of
thousands of Kashmiri Muslims marched to a town where seven people were
killed over the weekend, defying a curfew in another day of massive
protests against Indian rule in the Himalayan region. The Indian
government warned that further "mindless violence" in Indian Kashmir
could only lead to more deaths after two months of unrest that has
already claimed 45 lives.
(AP, 8/4/10)(AFP, 8/4/10)
2010 Aug 5, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir the death toll from civil unrest rose to 48 after two more
people were killed when paramilitary forces opened fire on
demonstrators angry about decades of Indian rule over the Himalayan
region.
(AP, 8/5/10)
2010 Aug 6, In Indian Kashmir at
least 113 people were killed and hundreds injured after rare rainfall
triggered flash floods in an area of Ladakh popular with foreign fans
of high-altitude adventure sports.
(AFP, 8/6/10)(SFC, 8/7/10, p.A4)
2010 Aug 10, Rescuers in
mountainous Indian-controlled Kashmir raced to save dozens of stranded
foreign trekkers and find 500 people still missing in flash floods that
have killed 140.
(AP, 8/10/10)
2010 Aug 13, In Kashmir tens of
thousands staged angry street demonstrations after government forces
killed four people and injured 31 others during the latest unrest
against Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan region.
(AP, 8/13/10)
2010 Aug 14, In Indian Kashmir
fresh clashes erupted between anti-India protesters and security
forces, where 55 demonstrators have died during two months of unrest.
(AFP, 8/14/10)
2010 Aug 15, India's PM Manmohan
Singh appealed to the people of Indian-controlled Kashmir to end
violent protests and said his government is ready to hold talks to
resolve their long-standing problems. An off-duty officer flung a shoe
at Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Indian-controlled Kashmir's top
elected official, during India's independence day ceremony.
(AP, 8/15/10)(AP, 8/16/10)
2010 Aug 19, In Indian Kashmir
paramilitary soldiers fired live ammunition to disperse anti-India
protesters and wounded 3 people after residents accused troops of
attacking their homes.
(AP, 8/19/10)
2010 Aug 20, In Indian Kashmir a
teenager was shot dead by paramilitary forces in northern Sopore town.
The death sparked further street protests in which a second man died in
southern Bijbehara town.
(AP, 8/21/10)
2010 Aug 30, In Kashmir police
opened fire with live rounds at rock-throwing Kashmiris, sparking
violent street protests by hundreds in India's portion of the troubled
Himalayan region. At least five people were wounded, one critically.
(AP, 8/30/10)
2010 Sep 6, In Kashmir Indian
government forces fired on protesters hurling stones at them, killing
three people and wounding at least 17 other demonstrators.
(AP, 9/6/10)
2010 Sep 11, In Kashmir police
fired warning shots and tear gas to disperse hundreds of demonstrators
who attacked a police post and burned government offices, as tens of
thousands of people took to the streets to protest Indian rule in the
Himalayan region.
(AP, 9/11/10)
2010 Sep 12, In
Indian-administered Kashmir hundreds of stone-throwing protesters
defied a curfew and attacked security forces in two towns, injuring 9
police officers and 4 soldiers. The protests erupted hours after police
formally accused Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a key separatist leader, of
treason for allegedly inciting participants in a massive rally to torch
government offices a day earlier.
(AP, 9/12/10)
2010 Sep 13, India’s PM Manmohan
Singh again voiced his willingness to talk to Kashmiris and to respond
to their demands, but the government has not yet responded to a
proposal by the separatists for peace talks. Indian forces killed 18
protesters and wounded scores of others in confrontations across
Kashmir fueled in part by a report that a Quran was desecrated in the
United States. A police officer was also killed.
(AP, 9/13/10)(AP, 9/14/10)
2010 Sep 14, Indian police opened
fire on stone-throwing protesters in Kashmir as small groups took to
the streets in defiance of curfew orders.
(AP, 9/14/10)
2010 Sep 15, Indian police opened
fire on Muslim demonstrators in a town near Kashmir, killing four
people and wounding 30 as leaders of India's main political parties
debated how to end months of separatist protests in the region.
(AP, 9/15/10)
2010 Sep 16, In the Indian portion
of Kashmir protesters defied a round-the-clock curfew and attacked
government forces with rocks, wounding six of them.
(AP, 9/16/10)
2010 Sep 17, India deployed
soldiers on the streets of protest-hit Kashmir to restore order, as
three more people were shot dead by security forces during violent
demonstrations.
(AFP, 9/17/10)
2010 Sep 18, Kashmir police fired
on fresh anti-India demonstrations, killing 3 protesters and bringing
the number of civilian deaths in an unprecedented wave of unrest to 102.
(AFP, 9/18/10)
2010 Sep 19, In Indian Kashmir 3
people wounded during recent protests against Indian rule died ahead of
a visit by a delegation of lawmakers seeking ways to defuse months of
civil unrest. A 22-year-old woman was killed in Sopore town by security
forces.
(AP, 9/19/10)(AP, 9/20/10)
2010 Sep 20, A delegation of
Indian lawmakers launched a mission in Kashmir to find ways of defusing
months of deadly unrest, but their trip was immediately derided by the
Himalayan region's separatists as a publicity stunt. Fresh protests
erupted in Sopore town, a day after a 22-year-old woman was killed by
security forces.
(AP, 9/20/10)
2010 Sep 21, In Pakistan-held
Kashmir a van carrying at least 30 schoolchildren plunged into a river,
and most of the passengers were confirmed or feared dead.
(AP, 9/21/10)
2010 Sep 25, The Indian government
said it will ask authorities to release hundreds of students and youths
detained during months of civil unrest that has left at least 107
people dead in Kashmir and review the massive deployment of security
forces there.
(AP, 9/25/10)
2010 Sep 26, Kashmiri separatist
leaders rejected India's offer to release hundreds of young detainees
and review the massive deployment of security forces in the Himalayan
territory to defuse deadly civil unrest.
(AP, 9/26/10)
2010 Oct 6, In Indian Kashmir 50
students arrested during months of deadly protests were released from
custody in a latest move to defuse tension in the Himalayan region.
(AP, 10/6/10)
2010 Oct 7, The assembly in
Indian-controlled Kashmir erupted in violence when opposition lawmakers
scuffled with security guards to protest a suggestion that only a deal
between India and Pakistan could bring peace to the region.
(AP, 10/7/10)
2010 Oct 24, Pakistani soldiers
allegedly fired machine guns and rockets on an Indian military post
killing an Indian soldier in the Poonch sector of Kashmir.
(AP, 10/25/10)
2010 Nov 3, In Kashmir two clashes
broke out in Srinagar between police and stone-throwing youths chanting
pro-independence slogans. Police said government forces have killed
seven suspected Muslim rebels in four gunbattles this week.
(AP, 11/3/10)
2010 Nov 10, In Kashmir suspected
Islamist rebels fatally shot two Indian paramilitary soldiers guarding
a busy marketplace in Pattan town in India's portion of Kashmir.
(AP, 11/10/10)
2010 Nov 29, In Indian Kashmir 3
suspected militants and a policeman were killed in a gunbattle in a
busy market in Srinagar, as panicked locals ran for cover. Police said
one of the slain militants was identified as Abdul Rehman, alias Naveed
of Lashkar, a Pakistani national active in the area for the last four
years.
(AFP, 11/29/10)
2010 Dec 10, Police in
Indian-controlled Kashmir arrested a college lecturer on charges he
gave his students an English exam filled with questions attacking
India's crackdown on demonstrations in the disputed region. The exam
written by Noor Mohammed Bhat and administered to students across the
region on Dec 8 included questions such as, "Are the stone pelters real
heroes? Discuss."
(AP, 12/10/10)
2010 Dec 15, In the Indian portion
of Kashmir police fired tear gas and swung batons to disperse hundreds
of Muslims participating in religious processions. At least six people
were injured.
(AP, 12/15/10)
2010 Basharat Peer authored
“Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist’s Frontline Account of Life,
Love and War in His Homeland.”
(Econ, 5/29/10, p.84)
2010 Kashmir’s population was
about 11 million.
(Econ, 1/1/11, p.35)
2011 Jan 14, In India a senior
government official said the government will reduce its enormous
military presence in the Kashmir region by 25% if anti-Indian violence
there ends.
(AP, 1/14/11)
2011 Jan 26, In Indian-controlled
Kashmir thousands of police prevented a Hindu nationalist party and a
separatist group from raising flags for their opposing causes in a
central square to mark India's Republic Day.
(AP, 1/26/11)
2011 Jan 31, In Kashmir attackers
carrying automatic rifles whisked Arifa (17) and Akhtara (19) away from
their home. Police say the men were rebels, though their mother, Fracha
Begum, has said only that they were gunmen. Less than an hour later,
police recovered their bodies riddled with bullets about a mile away.
Residents seemed convinced the rebels killed the sisters for their
alleged association with government forces deployed in the town.
(AP, 2/16/11)
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