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Subject: Some articles on Kashmir (14)
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Source :NEW YORK TIMES, August 24th, 1993
AFGHANS JOINING REBELS IN KASHMIR.
Indian Officials Assert Islamic Guerrillas Are
Fighting For Muslim Separatists.
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By SANJOY HAZARIKA, Special to The New York Times.
NEW DELHI, Aug. 23 - Hundreds of battle-hardened
Afghan rebels have slipped into the northern Indian
state of Jammu and Kashmir and are fighting along-
side local Muslim separatists and raising the level of
the insurgency against Indian troops, intelligence
officials said today.
"There are about 200 Afghans fighting in Kashmir but
we believe that the total figure of foreign fighters
is about 400," said an Indian official,who is closely
associated with intelligence operations in Kashmir.
He said that interrogation of one captured Afghan
and of Kashmiri militants indicated that the Afghans
were mostly members of the Hezb-i-Islami party of
the Afghan Prime Minister, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
An Experienced Adversary.
"Essentially,the presence especially of the Afghans
means a tougher confrontation for the security forces,
because these are veterans of the war against
Russia and against other insurgents, they understand
strategy, are experts in explosives and ambush and
capable of fighting long battles," said this security
expert.
He and other officials who asked not to be named,
said that an increase in the number of attacks on
police and army officials - aimed at specific middle-
level figures - indicated a new dimension to the
insurgency.
The Afghans and the other supposed foreign nationals
are reportedly working with several anti-Indian
militant groups, including fighters from the powerful
Party Of God and several function as bodyguards for
Kashmiri militant leaders, security officials said.
One official said the Afghans comprised the bulk of
the foreign militants but Muslims of other
nationalities also were involved, including people
from the Pakistani part of Kashmir, Bahrain, Saudi
Arabia and Sudan.
Ambush Of Border Unit.
The experience of the Afghan war was displayed in one
incident, the Indian official said, when Afghan led
rebels inflicted a stinging defeat on Indian
troops. They ambushed and killed 10 members of a
paramilitary Border Security Force patrol and captured
four. The Indians have not yet been freed.
Government reports made available to a reporter said
at least 29 Afghans were killed in Gun battles with
Indian troops in Kashmir between September 1992
and the middle of July 1993. The total number of
foreign nationals killed according to this account was
at least 63, including 22 from Pakistan.
Thousands of Kashmiris have died since the revolt
against India began in September 1989 in battles
between Indian forces and Kashmiri separatists, in
clashes among the militants as well as in attacks on
unarmed civilians.
Hindus Flee Kashmir.
Since 1990, more than 250,000 Hindu Kashmiris have
fled the Vale of Kashmir, the center of the main
fighting between Indian troops and the Kashmiris. Many
of them have settled in crowded and unsanitary refugee
camps in the Hindu dominated Jammu and have also come
to New Delhi and other cities.
Refugees have charged that the Islamic militants
have attacked and robbed them and raped women. Some of
these accusations have been supported by Indian
and International human rights groups.
( E N D )
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