Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : India Coffee House -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JPR who wrote (12396)	7/14/2002 10:00:52 AM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Killer Bastards in the Garb of Hindu Holy Men kill Hindu Women and Children in Kashmir I am looking for a genius Who doubles as a MFB or a Camel Screw to explain this. The bastards talk about RSS, Gujarat, & refugee camps and never once spoke about the atrocity in Kashmir. How do you explain this?--JPR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 14, 2002 India Blames Pakistan for Kashmir Attack That Kills 27 Hindus By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 8:38 a.m. ET JAMMU, India (AP) -- India blamed Pakistan on Sunday for an attack by suspected Islamic guerrillas on a crowded slum in Jammu-Kashmir state that killed at least 27 Hindus and threatened increase hostilities between the bitter rivals. Pakistan, which India accuses of harboring and backing the militants, also denounced Saturday's attack, saying it seemed designed to raise tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors. The top panel on security from India's Cabinet met to discuss how to respond. Afterward, Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani traveled to the massacre site Sunday and was to report back to the prime minister later in the day. ``It is clear that all this is being carried out with the inspiration of Pakistan. It was a gruesome attack,'' Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha told private Aaj Tak television. The attack comes ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell to both capitals this month in a bid to ease tensions. On Saturday, up to eight suspected Islamic militants walked into the Qasimnagar slum on the outskirts of Jammu, winter capital of Jammu-Kashmir, and threw three or four grenades before opening fire with automatic weapons, witnesses told police. Doctors said that two more people died Sunday, bringing the death toll in the attack to 27. Dozens more were injured, 10 critically, doctors said. The army was searching the area's forests for the assailants and had cordoned off parts of the shantytown and nearby hills, officials said. It was the deadliest assault in disputed Kashmir since a May 14 strike by Islamic militants against a military base near Jammu that killed 34 people. That attack had put India on a war footing with neighboring Pakistan. More than 1 million Indian and Pakistani soldiers are still massed along their frontier. Tensions between the neighbors had fallen in recent weeks after Pakistan promised to stop the infiltration of Islamic militants from its territory into India-controlled Kashmir. Saturday's attack, however, seems sure to reignite tensions. India's junior interior minister, I.D. Swamy, also linked the guerrillas to Pakistan. ``Pakistan arms them, helps them and sends them. We believe it is Lashkar-e-Tayyaba that carried out yesterday's attack,'' he said, referring to the most feared of more than a dozen Pakistan-based Islamic groups fighting for Kashmir's independence from India or merger with mostly Muslim Pakistan. ``Elections are about to happen, and militants' groups are trying to create terror,'' Swamy said. The Islamic militants are fighting for independence for India-controlled Kashmir or to merge it with mainly Muslim Pakistan. Kashmir is India's only Muslim majority region. The nations have fought two wars over divided Kashmir, which both claim in its entirety. Pakistan denies charges by Indian officials that it provides material aid for the militants, saying it only offers moral support. In Islamabad, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry released a statement Sunday condemning the attack. ``The motivation behind the attack seems to be to enhance tension in the region,'' the statement said. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident. Such claims are usually not made for attacks in which many civilians are killed. Most of the violence that has killed 60,000 people in the past decade in Jammu-Kashmir state has taken place in Kashmir Valley in the north. In recent months, however, Islamic groups have increasingly targeted Jammu in the south.