SRINAGAR, India, Aug 1 (AFP) The US ambassador to India arrived here Thursday to discuss the situation in Kashmir and the fate of an American tourist allegedly kidnapped by Muslim rebels more than a year ago, officials said.
Frank Wisner, accompanied by several US diplomats, is scheduled to meet mainstream leaders of the Kashmiri ... movement, journalists and officials in this Kashmir summer capital, the officials said.
He is scheduled to leave for Jammu, the Kashmir winter capital, on Saturday before returning to New Delhi.
SRINAGAR, Aug. 6 (AFP) The United States Senator Hank Brown's twoday visit to Srinagar has ended speculation that New Delhi had turned down the Republican senator's requests for a visit to Kashmir.
India last year protested a campaign in the US Congress by Senator Brown which led to the uncapping of US arms exports worth 368 million dollars to Pakistan. India said the move would heat up an arms race in South Asia.
Brown, accompanied by two US officials, met with senior leaders of the All Parties Freedom [Hurriyat] Conference, an umbrella of 30 Moslem separatist and political parties, for talks on the Kashmir conflict, the officials said.
He also called on K. V. Krishna Rao, governor of [Indian] federallyruled Kashmir.
ISLAMABAD, The senator arrived here [August 7th] after a visit to Indian-controlled Kashmir and talks with Indian leaders.
Sources here said the senator's discussions will focus on the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) being negotiated in Geneva, as well as developments in Afghanistan.
"It is heart breaking to see what is happening in Kashmir," the state-run Pakistan television quoted him as saying on arrival here.
SRINAGAR, India, Aug 28 (AFP) The death toll from a blizzarddecimated Hindu pilgrimage in Kashmir soared to 210 Wednesday as rescuers picked up more frozen bodies of Hindus strewn across a treacherous route in the Himalayas.
A state government spokesman said the recovery of 16 more bodies from the route to the sacred Amarnath cave site, 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of Srinagar, took to 210 the number of those killed in the tragedy so far.
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12 (AFP) Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian Authority, made a brief stop over here Friday for talks with Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on the Middle East peace process, officials said.
Officials said he briefed Bhutto about his recent meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu and also exchanged views on other regional and international issues.
Arafat reiterated his support for the Kashmir cause and renewed his offer to mediate between India and Pakistan to resolve the lingering dispute over the northern Himalayan state, they said.
New Delhi , Sept 16 (AFP) The number of people who died while in police or prison custody has nearly tripled in India over 12 months, the United News of India (UNI) said Monday.
UNI quoted sources in the National Human Rights Commission saying that 444 people had died in police stations or in jail between April last year and March 1996.
They put the figure for April 1994March 1995 at 162.
SRINAGAR, Oct. 16 (KPI) - India's newly installed puppet "National Conference" (NC) government admits that the renegade group, Ikhwan-ul-Muslimoon, led by "Kukka Parrey" openly looted precious walnut wood, deodars and chinar trees, under the noses of Indian occupation forces.
Sadiq Ali so-called Chairman of the J&K chapter of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) said, "it is fact that as far as deforestation is concerned, what militants could not do, the Indian Army did. It is impossible to calculate, say, how many walnut trees have been smuggled out by the Army."
SRINAGAR, Oct. 18 (KPI) - The All-Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) criticised Pakistan for its efforts to have a closer-trade link with India. In a written statement issued at its headquarters, the spokesman described the Pakistan government's efforts as rubbing salt into the open wounds of Kashmiri people.