Muslim Separatists Abduct, Threaten Pair in Kashmir
Muslim separatists kidnaped a leading industrialist and a university official Friday and threatened to kill them unless three jailed militants are freed, police and a telephone caller said.
Soldiers tightened security throughout the troubled Kashmir Valley and blocked off roads in and out of Srinagar, where the kidnapings took place.
Both the caller and police sources said the vice chancellor of Kashmir University, Mushir ul-Haq, and the general manager of Hindustan Machine Tools Co., L.M. Khela, were abducted.
Muslim separatists had warned officials in the Indian government to leave Jammu and Kashmir state by the end of March or “face the consequences.”
Police also said that soldiers killed six separatists who tried to cross into neighboring Pakistan on Thursday to seek training and weapons.
India says that Pakistan trains and arms the militants, but Pakistan denies the charges.
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