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SRINAGAR, India (AFP) - A giant freshwater carp nicknamed the "tiger fish" for its great fighting abilities is set to return to the fast-flowing rivers of Indian Kashmir, officials say. Scientists have built a hatchery for breeding the mahseer and hope to restock the waters of Kashmir, known as an "angler's paradise," although few foreign fishermen venture here now due to a deadly Islamic insurgency against New Delhi's rule that began in 1989. "Catching mahseer is a real sport, a real adventure. Its re-introduction in these waters will definitely see an influx of anglers," says one enthusiastic fisherman, Abdul Qayoom,...

NEW DELHI: In a "startling revelation", former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has claimed that Pervez Musharraf in 1996 had sought her permission to "take" Kashmir by assuming control of Srinagar, a suggestion she had shot down. Bhutto made this claim in the revised edition of her autobiography "Benazir Bhutto: Daughter of the East" released in Britain this week. Musharraf, then a major general and director of military operations, had concluded a briefing to Bhutto with the words that "a ceasefire would be in place and Pakistan would be in control of Srinagar." "I asked him, 'And what next?' He...

It was hardly a Hallmark moment. As a Valentine's Day card smoldered, more than 100 members of the Hindu extremist group Shiv Sena gathered in central New Delhi chanted "Death to Valentine's Day" and "People who celebrate Valentine's Day should be pelted with shoes!" Valentine's Day has in the past two decades made strong inroads in India as the country has slowly opened itself up to the outside world - its economic boom bringing in not just foreign investment, but also aspects of Western culture virtually unknown here a quarter-century ago. Across the country, stores stocked heart-shaped balloons and chocolates,...

SRINAGAR: The sinister designs of law enforcers turning predators to collect bounties by organising fake killing is now singing the top echelons of the Jammu and Kashmir police. On Saturday, state police placed two of its senior officers - former Ganderbal SSP H R Parihar and ex-DSP Bahadur Ram - under arrest on charges of killing Abdul Rahman Padroo, a carpenter, and others by labelling these innocent villagers as terrorists. "We have arrested the senior officers after they were found prima facie involved in staging fake encounters and killing civilians for cheap publicity, promotions and cash rewards,"DGP Gopal Sharma told...

Security forces on Thursday killed four suspected Muslim militants in India-administered Kashmir while another militant was killed while planting an explosive device in the state, police said. Senior police official Basant Rath said Abu Salim, a divisional commander of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) militant group and three other rebels were killed in a gun battle in the southern Udhampur district. "Following a tip-off, the army raided the area in the early hours of Thursday and spotted the militants. Four rebels were killed but the army suffered no losses," Rath said. The firefight took place in Deeda village, 240 kilometres from the...

It has more than twice as many people as Iran, six times more than Iraq, many primed for Islamic extremism by a legacy of poverty and illiteracy left by decades of misrule by corrupt secular leaders, civilian and military. It already has nuclear weapons, and ballistic missiles made with North Korean help. It shelters jihadists battling Western forces across its border, and fanatical cells training Muslim youth in Western countries to put bombs on buses and metros... [T]he Taliban are able to operate out of neighbouring Pakistan with little hindrance. The Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, is said to live...

WASHINGTON: Senator Joseph Biden, the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has said that Kashmir is not an issue that is “ours to solve”. In an interview with India Abroad, he was asked if on taking over the chairmanship of the committee next month he would advocate that Washington use its good offices to resolve the Kashmir imbroglio, to which he replied that he would not bring the question up “without consultation with India first”. He added, “I don’t think we can determine - we the United States - (how it should be resolved).” He said the US...

By IANS, [RxPG] Jammu, Dec 27 - Ashraf Ganaie, a divisional commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba - who masterminded the killing of 35 Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir earlier this year, was killed in a gunfight with security forces Wednesday evening. A close associate of the LeT commander was also killed in the more than six-hour-long fierce gun battle with forces of the Indian Army and police in Karra village of Doda district, about 200 km north of here. The militants had killed 35 Hindus; 22 in Kulhand on May 1 and 13 in Basantgarh area of the adjacent hilly district...

You have a problem. It’s a problem shared by Jews in Hebron, Serbs in Kosovo, Hindus in the Kashmir, Catholics in Lebanon, and Americans walking the streets of New York. Consider the inter-connectedness of the following incidents, all of which took place in the past few months: In Indonesia, three Christian schoolgirls were beheaded. In Iraq, a Syrian Orthodox priest was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered. In Somalia, a nun was shot to death as she left the hospital where she worked, tending the sick and dying. In Lebanon, just days ago, a cabinet minister was assassinated. In Britain, authorities uncovered...

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's latest trial balloon for a solution to the Kashmir issue revolving around self-governance, demilatarisation and a joint supervisory mechanism with India underlines a shift from Islamabad's ideological to pragmatic approach to resolve a dispute over which the two countries have fought two wars. Essentially, Musharraf's four-point proposal that also includes making the Line of Control (LoC) irrelevant is an amplification of his old ideas circulated by him last year. Musharraf's idea of making the LoC irrelevant is, in fact, a vindication of what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been stressing all along. This has been the...

Pak ready to give up Kashmir claim United News of India New Delhi, December 5, 2006|14:36 IST Pakistan is prepared to give up its claim on Kashmir, the demand for plebiscite in the region and on implementation of UN Resolutions if both countries agree on the four-point solution. In an interview with a private channel here, Gen Musharraf said self-governance or autonomy did not mean independence and Pakistan is against independence for Kashmir. He said Pakistan was prepared to give up its claim to Kashmir if India and Pakistan agree on the four-point solution (a solution in which boundaries are...

Gen Musharraf says he wants troops to withdraw from Kashmir Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has suggested Pakistan would give up its claim over disputed Kashmir if India accepted his peace proposals.Gen Musharraf called for a phased withdrawal of troops in the region and self-governance for Kashmiris. India responded by saying its position was that the map could not be redrawn but borders could be made irrelevant. Both nations claim Kashmir in its entirety. It has sparked two of their three wars since independence in 1947. Gen Musharraf told NDTV that he had a "four-point solution" to ending the impasse...

Two historical sculptures of Hindu deities Lord Vishnu and Goddess Kali of ninth century Kashmir have been selected for exhibition of Kashmiri art in America, next year. The exhibition would be held under the aegis of Asia Society and Queens Museum of Art, New York in October 2007 and 2008. Dr Pratapaditya Pal, scholar and curator of Indian art, Asia Society... is the author of a masterly book on Kashmir's bronze art - Bronze Art in Kashmir... The Zurhama is the 8th finding of the state's Archaeology department in the past three years. The most attractive of these findings was...

A jehadi terrorist said on Saturday he was paid $20 to throw a grenade during Friday prayers in Kashmir that killed five people including four children. Police said Ghulam Nabi Mir belonged to Hizbul Mujahideen, a terror group fighting for jehad in Kashmir. It has denied involvement in the attack and said Indian security agencies were behind it. "I threw it. They gave me 1,000 rupees ($20)," Mir, who looked to be in his late 20s, told reporters in the presence of police. "Forgive my mistake. I wouldn't make such a mistake again." Mir was captured by villagers immediately after...

NEW DELHI: India will 'go up in flames' if it hangs a Muslim militant convicted for his role in an attack on Parliament in 2001, former J&K chief minister Farooq Abdullah was quoted as saying. Last month a New Delhi court set October 20 as the date for the hanging of Kashmiri Mohammed Afzal, triggering violent protests in Indian Kashmir. "You want to hang him? Go ahead and hang him ... this nation will go up in flames because the terrorists will do things which will destroy the relationship of the Hindus and Muslims here," Abdullah told CNN-IBN news channel....

In Kashmir lexicon, Bush is Khanzir POONCH: Grenade is aloo , explosive is atta and American President George Bush is Khanzir (evil) in network centric communication in Jammu and Kashmir, with militants having authored a terror lexicon to fox security forces with its coded idiolect. "Over 1000-1200 code words are part of militant's terror dictionary for their usages in conversations through network centric communication inside the state and from neighbouring Pakistan for foxing forces," senior army officials said. The focus of this terror lexicon is safe and secure conversation, they said. Security forces and intelligence agencies, however, have managed to...

SRINAGAR, Oct 8: Taking advantage of the losing grip of Police, BSF as well as Army in Sopore, militants have kidnapped and mercilessly slaughtered a young dental surgeon within 24 hours of beheading a Territorial Army recruit in the apple-rich north Kashmir township. More confident this time, militants have slit the throat of the young dental surgeon and father of three kids with seven shaving blades in broad daylight after subjecting him to untold brutality for about two hours. Civilian sources revealed to the EXCELSIOR that the local Police Station responded to a report and recovered the dead body of...

LONDON: Tony Blair's aides have issued a quavering and placatory denial the British government gives any credence to a controversial report written for the ministry of defence, which criticizes the ISI for continuing to support al-Qaeda and lambasts London for continuing to support General Musharraf as Pakistan's president. Blair's firm denial that the UK had a bone to pick with Pakistan's alleged two-facedness in the war on terror came as a feisty Musharraf vowed to challenge the British prime minister face-to-face (on Thursday evening) about claims in the report that the ISI was indirectly backing Islamist terrorism and that the...

From Catholic World News:Muslim fundamentalists attacked a Catholic school in India's Kashmir valley on Monday, demolishing a wall and smashing windows and furniture. The Good Shepherd Mission School in Pulwama is run by a popular missionary priest, Father Jim Borst of the Dutch Mill Hill order, who has been in the region since 1963. Although Muslim militants persuaded the state government to begin proceedings to expel the priest in 2004, Christian groups campaigned successfully to reverse that order. A leading retreat preacher, Father Borst is credited with initiating the translation of the Bible into the Kashmiri language. The elderly priest...

Police in Indian Kashmir seized newspapers carrying Pope Benedict XVI's strong criticisms of Islam and jihad, fearing a Muslim backlash in the flashpoint area. "We've seized copies of (Indian) newspapers carrying the pope's remarks. It has been done to prevent any tension here," a police officer said. Copies of the Indian dailies were impounded at Srinagar's high-security airport when they arrived from New Delhi, he said on Thursday. The pontiff hit out at Islam and the concept of holy war or jihad in a speech in Germany on Tuesday, citing a 14th-century Christian emperor who said the Prophet Mohammed had...

In a major breakthrough, security forces in Jammu's Medhar region have recovered two video CDs containing a film of a training camp being operated by the Al-Qaeda at an undisclosed location, an ANI TV report said on Friday. The CDs carry no hint of the exact location of the training camps. The CDs were obtained from two Al-Qaeda terrorists who were gunned down by the security forces. The CDs show youth receiving physical training, shooting and riding horses. The youths are also shown singing motivational songs. The CD shows youth as young as 12-year-old are being taught expertise in the...

A passenger revolt occurred on a Malaga-Manchester flight. Vacationing Brits refused to fly with two Arabic-speaking men. This came in the wake of arrests of 21 British-born Muslims who were plotting to blow up as many as 11 trans-Atlantic flights. A spokesman for Britain’s opposition Tory party said the passengers panicked into “behaving irrationally.� Fancy that, not wanting to fly with members of a faith whose adherents keep trying to blow things up. Oh, how irrational! Within days of this incident, a Lebanese student was arrested for trying to plant bombs on German trains. In India, meanwhile, a group with...

Three months after the RCMP began arresting 18 suspects accused of plotting terror attacks in Canada, an investigation by the National Post has uncovered a web of links to Pakistan. Today, in the first of four parts, the role of a Pakistani training camp is revealed.- - - BALAKOT, Pakistan - A worn footpath climbs from the Kaghan Valley highway into the lush mountains above the River Kunar, on Kashmir's western frontier. The locals all know where it leads. An hour's walk up the steep trail there is a training camp built by Islamic militants called Madrassa Syed Ahmed Shaheed...

Britain 'is now biggest security threat to US' By Francis Harris in Washington (Filed: 29/08/2006) Britain now presents a greater security threat to the United States than Iran or Iraq, an American magazine said yesterday. In an article on Islamists headlined "Kashmir on the Thames", the New Republic painted Britain's Muslim communities as a breeding ground for violent extremism. Citing recent opinion poll evidence suggesting that one in four British Muslims believed that last year's London Tube bombings were justified, the magazine said: "In the wake of this month's high-profile arrests, it can now be argued that the biggest threat...

It happened again this week. I came out of the office to find a flyer under my windshield wipers inviting me to a special informational presentation on God and family values, and how to bring them back to the forefront in America. I'm a parent, so the flyer caught my interest. But as an analyst for the Northeast Intelligence Network, my eyes were riveted to the address on the flyer: The session was being held at a nearby mosque. Curiosity got the better of me, and I decided it would be a good time for some onsite investigations of the...

ISLAMABAD (August 27 2006): President General Pervez Musharraf has reiterated the unwavering commitment of Pakistan to the cause of Kashmir, saying the government would continue to provide diplomatic, political and moral support to the Kashmiris for resolution of the dispute in accordance with the wishes of the Kashmiri people. He was talking to newly-elected Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Raja Zulqarnain, who called on him at the Aiwan-e-Sadr on Saturday. President Musharraf congratulated the AJK president on his election, and expressed the confidence that during his term in office he would strive for the socio-economic uplift of the Kashmiri...

Zainab Bint Muhammed, 16, student in Tower Hamlets, who wants to be a human rights lawyer Muslims are beginning to get angry about the way we are being treated. Muslim boys have to prove their innocence on the streets now, instead of the police proving their guilt. This is supposed to be a multicultural society, yet there are increasing divisions between the people who live within it. British foreign policy is disastrous for harmony in this country. How can Muslims trust the government any more? It condemns Hizbollah, but funds Israel to kill innocent children. No wonder Muslims are angry....

UK: Welsh Objection To Islamist's Visit The famous preacher on Islam, Dr Zakir Naik (pictured left), will be due speak publicly in Cardiff this Saturday (19 August), at the St David's Hall. The Western Mail reports that a Welsh MP, David Davies of Monmouth, has voiced strong objections to the arrival of the Islamist showman. Davies states: "Cardiff County Council ought to step in immediately to prevent this hate-monger from having a platform for his obnoxious views. If a British Nazi party wanted to promulgate the annihilation of ethnic minorities, I can't imagine they would be given a public platform....

Investigators probing the plot to blow up several aircraft from Britain to US suspected involvement four Islamic militant groups including Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Sunni extremist outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. The probe revealed that funds provided by a UK-based Islamic charity for earthquake relief in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir has apparently been used to target planes, a media report in Islamabad said on Saturday. "The links of the arrested suspect could not be confirmed, but the sources said intelligence agencies had put four Islamic organisations on the watch list and they included two UK-based outfits Al Mahajroon and Hizbul Tehrir, and two Pakistani organisations Lashkar-e-Tayiba...

‘Quake money’ used to finance UK plane bombing plot * Funds given to two British citizens of Kashmiri origin and an Islamabad-based Kashmiri builder * ‘Earthquake relief’ money remitted to individuals alarmed British agencies By Sarfaraz Ahmed and Maqbool Ahmed KARACHI: A UK-based Islamic charity organisation remitted a huge amount of money to three individuals in three different bank accounts in Mirpur, Azad Kashmir, in December last year with the sole purpose of helping its recipients and their organisations carry out the aircraft bombing plan in the UK, insider sources told Daily Times yesterday. An investigation carried out by Daily...

Friday, August 11, 2006 (Jammu): Three members of a Hindu family, including two children, were shot dead by militants in Udhampur district on Friday. A group of suspected LeT militants entered into the house of one Ram Singh in Ara village of Gool tehsil and enquired about him. Singh, who had been receiving threats from militants, had taken shelter for the night in a nearby Special Task Force camp of J & K Police and only his wife and two children were present in the isolated house, on the outskirts of the village and surrounded by hillocks. The militants severely...

LeT founder Saeed detained in Lahore Nirupama Subramanian "Arrest not made at India's instance" ISLAMABAD: Hafiz Saeed, head of the Jamaat-ud-Daawa (JuD) and founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, (LeT) has been placed under house arrest in Lahore, a spokesman for the group said. New Delhi has several times demanded that Pakistan arrest Mr. Saeed, linking the LeT to a string of terrorist attacks across India. The demand was most recently reiterated after the Mumbai blasts, when India postponed Foreign Secretary-level talks with Pakistan. But the JuD dismissed the possibility that the arrest was made under Indian pressure. JuD spokesman Yahya Mujahid...

SRINAGAR, India (AFP) - Six people were killed in shootings and 10 wounded in a grenade attack on a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims in Indian Kashmir, police and the army said. Indian troops shot dead four Muslim rebels during a fierce gunbattle near the de facto border dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan. "The four were killed during a gunbattle that erupted late Sunday in the (northern) Gurez sector," army spokesman Hemant Joneja told AFP on Monday. He said the four were part of a group that had infiltrated into Indian Kashmir on Wednesday from across the Line of Control...

As part of a new strategy, terrorists were planning to strike targets in Jammu and Kashmir using "mobile bombs," a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist arrested recently has revealed. The terrorists were collecting SIM cards to prepare the "mobile bombs" and many of the them were already in possession of these, 16-year-old LeT terrorist Noor Illahi alias Tipu disclosed during interrogation at Mendhar police station in Poonch, official sources said on Sunday. They said though mobile bombs were not used by terrorists in the state so far, such devices were used by al-Qeada in the serial blasts in Malaysia in January this...

The two-year criminal investigation of a Srinagar brothel – allegedly protected and patronized by top Indian and state officials – could do more than titillate; it could undermine what faith many Kashmiris have left in the Indian government. "This discredits the state more and more. Whatever credibility was left ... it is now gone," says Sheikh Showkat Hussein, a law professor at the University of Kashmir. "When the deputy inspector general of [Border Security Forces], K.S. Padhi, was arrested, he said, 'This was part of our counterinsurgency operation. We were doing our job. We used to enlist girls for spying...

The recent train bombings in India have intensified the scrutiny of the Pakistan-based, al Qaeda affiliated terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba. In particular, one key question is being asked: What role does LET play in the war against Islamofascists and their allies? The al Qaeda-linked Wahhabi group, formed in 1989, has been blamed for a number of attacks on Indian officials and civilians. It was added to the U.S. terrorist list in December 2001. LET’s agenda, as announced in one of their pamphlets and detailed by MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base, is to wage jihad with the goal of imposing their narrow version...

A one-day strike held in protest at the Israeli military action in Lebanon has brought much of Muslim-majority, Indian administered Kashmir to a halt. Shops in many areas were closed and public transport services cancelled. The strike has been called by a hardline Kashmiri separatist leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Reports say Mr Geelani, who led a protest against the Israel on Friday, has been placed under house arrest for the duration of the strike. Hundreds of Muslims held protests across India after Friday prayers, condemning Israel for its military strikes inside Lebanon. They raised slogans against Israel and the...

SOME of the main fundraisers for the terror group suspected of masterminding the Bombay train bombings are operating from Britain, according to Indian intelligence officials. The officials accuse Britain of failing to act against a number of wealthy businessmen, who they claim are using bogus charities to funnel up to £8 million a year to Kashmiri militants groups, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, which remains the main suspect for orchestrating the synchronised bombings that killed 182 people. Manmohan Singh, the Indian Prime Minister, raised the terror link with Tony Blair at the G8 summit in St Petersburg yesterday, reminding him that India...

ST. PETERSBURG: Minutes after Air India One, the special aircraft carrying the PM to St Petersburg entered the airspace of Uzbekistan, National Security Adviser M K Narayanan handed over to Manmohan Singh a one-page note. It contained the confessions by two Pakistani fidayeen who have blasted a huge hole in Pakistan's protestations of innocence about ISI's involvement in last week's terror assault on Mumbai. This will give a major boost to the PM's plan to lobby world leaders for coming down hard on the sponsors of terrorism. The two members of the jehadi suicide squad were arrested by security forces...

By Simon Denyer NEW DELHI (Reuters) - There were tears in his eyes as he met the victims of this week's Mumbai bomb blasts, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had steel in his voice as he talked about Pakistan's failure to tackle terrorism. "Terror modules" in India were being instigated and supported by elements from across the border. Pakistan had not fulfilled a promise to curb extremism and the peace process between South Asia's nuclear rivals could not advance until it did, he said. The tough talk was prompted by the killing of 179 people in bomb attacks on Mumbai's...

SRINAGAR, India — A man claiming to represent al-Qaida in Kashmir said the terror network had set up a wing in Kashmir and appealed to Indian Muslims to take up jihad, an Indian news agency reported Thursday. An official said the government said it was taking the claim "very seriously." The man, who identified himself as Abu al-Hadeed, told Kashmir's Current News Service that "who so ever has carried out the attacks in Bombay we express our gratitude and happiness." As word of the announcement spread, a senior intelligence official in Kashmir said the call had been placed from a...

n a pre-dawn strike, terrorists on Thursday killed four Hindus, including two girls, in Poonch district, official sources said. Advertisement The terrorists barged into two houses in Magnar village in the district around 1 am and opened fire on the family members of Ashok Kumar and Mangu, killing four persons and injuring two others, the sources said. The terrorists also knocked at the doors of other houses but nobody opened, they said. Those killed have been identified as Priyanka and Menaka, daughters of Mangu, and Lokesh and Pankaj, sons of Ashok Kumar. The injured have been identified as five-year-old Kamini...

The coordinated attacks on Mumbai's commuter trains are the latest chapter in a sustained covert war against India by Pakistan-sponsored Islamist terror groups, says Ajai Sahni of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi.

JAMMU: The frequent grenade attacks in Jammu and Kashmir may be carried out by cross-border terrorists, but they have a distinct 'Made in China' tag, say top counter-insurgency experts. For the past 15 years, terrorists have been using compact Chinese-made grenades to carry out their nefarious activities in the Valley. "Indian grenades are more powerful than the Chinese made, but obviously the supply is routed through Pakistan, which is why Chinese grenades are used. We have never come across terrorists using Indian made grenades," said senior officers. There are some basic differences between the two, say experts. While the outer...

Maharashtra tops jihadi target Pioneer News Service | Mumbai 148 killed 8 blasts in 11 minutes ---- It was like a chronicle of a tragedy foretold. Mumbai was always a soft target. The heart of the Indian economy, the tinsel metropolis, which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wanted to turn into Shanghai has had several close shaves with terror in the last few months. The signals should have been enough to keep intelligence agencies on high alert, round-the-year, round-the-clock. Not just Mumbai. Indeed, the whole of Maharashtra was perched on a tinderbox with reports of explosives seizure pouring in on a...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army lost 2,700 military personnel in the Kargil conflict, far higher than its casualties during the 1965 and 1971 wars with India, former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif has said in his memoirs. Giving his account of the 1999 conflict in the book "Ghadaar Kaun? Nawaz Sharif Ki Kahani, Unki Zubani", Sharif said the casualties suffered by the Army were so extensive that an entire brigade of the Northern Light Infantry based in the Pakistan-controlled Northern Areas was wiped out. Sharif reiterated his contention that Gen Pervez Musharraf, the then Army chief, had not taken him into...

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - India said its troops shot dead eight suspected Islamist militants on Friday when they tried to sneak into Indian Kashmir from the Pakistani side, the biggest infiltration bid to be foiled this year. The incursion attempt took place in the border district of Kupwara, northwest of Srinagar, Indian Kashmir's summer capital, an army spokesman said. Eight infiltrators were killed earlier this month, also in the Kupwara area. "The encounter with infiltrators started at midnight near the fence in Kern sector of Kupwara. The search operation continues," spokesman Hemant Joneja said. There was no immediate comment from...

SUSPECTED Islamist militants killed a villager in Indian Kashmir by slitting his throat and cut off the tongues and noses of four others, accusing them of being police informers, authorities said today. The attackers also beat up seven other villagers and set several houses ablaze late on Wednesday in a remote village near Mahore town, 65 km north-east of Jammu city, the Indian state's winter capital. "It is a mountainous village and it takes six hours on foot to reach there from the nearest road link," said a police officer. "These foreign militants are ruthless," he said, referring to guerrillas...

The hypothesis that Jesus Christ is buried in central Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, has aroused a lot of interest among historiographers, researchers, scholars, archaeologists and religious groups both in India and worldwide once again. A team of German researchers, including two archaeologists, is planning to visit Srinagar later this year to investigate the subject. Within India, the political party known as the Janata Party has set up a group of experts from among its members which would be coming to Kashmir's summer capital soon to start research work. The party's president, Dr Subramanian Swamy, who was in...

Srinagar, June 12: Militants surrounded a group of labourers working in a remote Kashmiri village on Monday and shot them, killing six and wounding dozens, police said. Details were scant, but police officer S.P. Pani said the workers in the village of Badru were from other parts of India, meaning they were likely Hindu and suggesting a possible religious motive for the attack in Kashmir, a predominantly Muslim region. He said police were trying to determine the identity of the gunmen. "These labourers were working at a construction site when an unknown number of gunmen surrounded the site and opened...