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WORLD, Page 29World NotesINDIACrime Pays in Kashmir
"Our agony has ended," said a relieved Mufti Mohammad Sayeed,
the Home Minister in India's newly elected government, as he was
reunited last week with his daughter Rubia. The 22-year-old medical
intern had been kidnaped five days earlier by Muslim extremists
agitating for the secession of Jammu and Kashmir state.
The government won the woman's freedom by capitulating to the
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, which had demanded freedom for
five comrades detained under antiterrorism measures. As news of
the settlement spread, supporters of the pro-Pakistan J.K.L.F.
thronged the streets of Srinagar, the state's summer capital,
hoisting Pakistani flags and shouting slogans. When the crowd
turned violent, seven people were killed in skirmishes with police,
bringing the death toll to 85 over the past 16 months.
Sayeed, India's first Muslim Home Minister, has vowed to bring
peace to his country's only predominantly Muslim state. Late last
week the government did so by force, slapping a curfew on all major
towns in the Kashmir valley.