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Famous Muslim shrine burnt down in Kashmir: 29 guerillas killed

Arson, shooting continue
SRINAGAR May 13: Police fired gunshots and tear gas to disperse angry crowds who burned several schools, government buildings and Hindu temples in Kashmir, in apparent retaliation for the destruc-tion of a 15th century Muslim shrine, officials said today, reports AP.
At least one person was killed in the police firing in Nawakadal locality on the outskirts of the state capital Srinagar, officials said.
Nearly 100 schools, government buildings and private homes'have been set on fire by ihe protestors in Kashmir since Friday evening. United News of India news agency said.
But there was no official confirmation of the report.
< iirfew remained in force for .i third d.iy today ac ross the
Kashmir valley. But it was lifted for three hours lit the evening iu some localities on the outskirts of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu-Kashmir state.
The battle between troops and guerillas over the Muslim shrine in Char-e-Sharief was one of the biggest confrontations in a 5-year-old separatist rebellion that has killed
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I 1.500 people.
The clash ignited Ures that destroyed 1.500 homes and businesses and Char-e-Shafiefs mosque dedicated to Kashmir's patron saint Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani. Il was built in 1460.
Soldiers found two more bodies in I lie smoking ruins of the town, raising the guerilla
death toll in the three-day battle to 29. the military said today. Two soldiers also were killed In the fighting.
Army officers said 35 to 40 militants were believed to have been In the shrine when it burst Into flames before dawn Thursday, and soldiers were searching for survivors.
1'1 iv guerillas occupied the mosque two months agd. pro-
voking a stortdoff with troops.
AFP says Indian troops stormed the shrine killing more than 35 guerillas. The shrine was destroyed in a fire during the. operation, police said.
"Indian soldiers shot dead four more Muslim separatist guerillas today. The Press Trust of India said the four unidentified guerillas were killed during a house-to-hoOse hunt for holed-up Muslim rebels in the Kashmiri township of Char-e-Sharief.
Reuters says the Muslim guerilla leader accused by India of masterminding the destruction of the town and the Muslim shrine before being wounded and trapped in the ruins announced today that he had escaped.
Major Mast Gul. whose sep-
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aratisis the Indian army says razed Cbar-e-Shariel. said he was now in hiding with his supporters.
"It. is the Indian army’s wishful thinking chat I have been martyred. 1 trust Allah and 1 am alive and I have already come out of Char-e-Sharief and am with the people now.” Gul said in a tape recording delivered to local Journalists.
Reporters who have interviewed Gul. a member of the Hezb ul Mujahedin. confirmed It was his voice on the tape. Gul has said he is from Afghanistan.
Indian Brigadier Mohinder Singh, the commander of the 1.500 Lroops operating in and around the shrine, told reporters on Friday he believed Mast Gul was wounded and still holed up with about a dozen men in the ruins.
Meanwhile Pakistan sought International support against what it called Indian threats of war after the destruction of the mosque which Pakistan blames on Indian forces. '
"Pakistan calls upon all members of the United Nations to urge the Indian government to refrain from issuing threats of war against Pakistan,’ Foreign Minister Aseff Ahmed Ali told a news conference.
"We are at all times prepared for any eventuality."
All was responding to angry comments by Indian Home Minister of State Rajesh Pilot. In a Thursday television interview. Pilot said India would be forced to demonstrate its might if Pakistan did not stop Interfering in Kashmir.
"We shall have no option but to accomplish the unfinished task of vacating Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. India has demonstrated in the past its might and Pakistan should know it better." Pilot said.
AFP adds: India further tightened security at its fron-
tiers with Pakistan today. Rajesh Pilot said security has been further reinforced on the country's sprawling borders with Pakistan and an operation was on to 'eliminate collaborators of terrorists' in the frontier zones.
Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has expressed her country's horror and anger' at the destruction of a Muslim shrine in Kashmir.
"This aej of wanton and wilful sacrilege is yet another reminder of the length to which India will go in order to subjugate our Kashmiri brethren," Bhutto said in a statement.
The International Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives wants Clinton administration to be active in trying to get the Kashmir issue resolved.
•It adopted, last night, a 'serise-of-Congress' amendment by Dana Rohrabacher which "reiterates the need for all parties to enter into negotiations and resolve the Kashmir issue peacefully."
The committee urged the administration "to facilitate a peaceful, negotiated settlement" of the problem.
The destruction of an Islamic shrine in Kashmir is 'a deplorable incident', the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Jese Ayala Ldsso said in Geneva Friday on his return from a visit- to India.
'The governor of Jammu and Kashmir told me the gov- I ernment was favouring a peaceful approach-... this did not happen."