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Hazratbal siege: 25 more killed

Police, chief negotiator ‘run out of patience’
SRINAGAR Nov 15: The In dlan army siege of the Hazrat bal Mosque entered a second month today as clashes between Muslim militants and the security forces left 25 more people dead in the Kashmir valley, report AFP, AP.
A youngman fled the be sieged mosque meanwhile and gave himself up to Indian troops today, officials said. He was the fifth person to leave the mosque and surrender to the authorities since Sunday.
Some 50 armed Kashmiri Muslim separatists and several dozen Muslim pilgrims have been hold up in the mosque on the outskirts of Srinagar since it was ringed by paramilitary troops on the night of October 15.
Efforts to bring about a ne gotiated settlement have been unsuccessful and Indian offl cials indicated today that their patience may be running out.
SRINAGAR. Nov 15: The authorities tonight indicated there were positive signals' of armed militants trapped inside the Hazratbal shrine giving them up soon. Chief official negotiator. Mehmood-ur-Rahman told FTI that negotiations had entered a 'decisive' stage.
The militants have to come out and surrender or we will have to review our strategy. Kashmir police chief Manohar Nath Sabharwal told reporters
Chief government negotiator Mehmood-ur-Rehman also ap-
peared exasperated on Sunday when he warned the militants "not to tax the government s patience" and said the "time has come for you to surrender
Srinagar and other towns in the Musllm-majorlty Kashmir valley were paralysed by a gen eral strike today and troops and riot police patrolled the deserted streets tp prevent protests against the Hazratbal siege
Shops, businesses, schools and government offices were closed and police chief Sabhar wal said that troops would move quickly to break up any public gatherings of more than four people.
The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Froat (JKLF). the dominant militant group In Sri
nagar, the Kashmir summer capital, had called on the population today to march on Hazratbal • mosque to force a lifting of the siege.
Indian troops shot dead more than 50 demonstrators on October 22 and only a few token protests took place here today.
The Press Trust of India (PTI) reported meanwhile that 13 people were killed in clashes between Kashmiri Muslim separatists and Indian troops in the Kashmir valley on Sunday and today.
AP adds: Indian forces shot and killed 12 militants today as they tried to enter Jammu-Kashmir state from neighboring Pakistan, the military said.
The shootout occurred in Kargil. a mountainous district of the state that Is 200 kilometers west of Srinagar, the sum-
mer capital.
Meanwhile British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd told India Monday it cannot rest On a 45-year-old treaty to resolve the Kashmir dispute and must negotiate with Pakistan.
riurd's statement could put him in the middle of a diplomatic row between India and the United States,