KASHMIR: FREEDOM FROM INDIA DEMONSTRATION

(15 May 1995) Natural Sound

Indian opposition parties pilloried the prime minister, P.V Narasimha Rao Monday and threatened a no-confidence vote over the government's Kashmir policy, as Indian troops enforced a curfew there for the fifth day.

In Islamabad, Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto declared next Friday a national day of mourning for the muslim shrine destroyed in Jashmir last Thursday.

These demonstrators demanding freedom from India are part of a 5-year-old rebellion in Kashmir - the only Muslim majority state in predominantly Hindu India.

The rebellion has so far claimed 11-thousand, 5-hundred lives.

A curfew was imposed by the government after Thursday's burning of a 15-century Muslim shrine at Char-e-sharif.

When the curfew was relaxed for a couple of hours at Patmallo in the capital of Kashmir, Srinagar, the demonstrators took to the streets pelting stones and burning tyres to combat the tear gas that the security forces were shelling to maintain peace.

The security forces made a couple of arrests.

India says the insurgency is being fueled by Pakistan, which also claims the territory on India's northern frontier.

Kashmir has been the cause of two of the three wars since the two countries became independent from Britain in 1947.

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