SRINAGAR, Indian-ruled Kashmir (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Resistance men attacked the intelligence headquarters of an Indian paramilitary force with grenades in the restive state of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, wounding two Indian soldiers, an official said.The attack took place in the heart of Srinagar, the state's winter capital.
No Resistance group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
A dozen Resistance groups -- including fighters from Afghanistan, Pakistan and other Islamic countries -- are fighting Indian rule in Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian-ruled Muslim-majority state. (Read photo caption below)
Indian intelligence agencies reported last week the leader of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, Mullah Mohammad Omar, had appealed to Resistance groups in Kashmir to come to Afghanistan to help it stand up to a likely U.S. strike in wake of the air attacks on the United States.
Many of the Resistance groups in Kashmir have vowed to repulse any U.S. retaliatory attacks on Afghanistan.
Officials say more than 30,000 people have been killed in the Kashmir region since the revolt began in late 1989 but the separatists put the toll closer to 80,000.
India controls 45 percent of the Himalayan region, Pakistan one-third, and China the rest.
PHOTO CAPTION:
Kashmiri Muslims burn a U.S. flag during a demonstration after Friday prayers in Srinagar, September 21, 2001. Police fired dozens of tear gas shells to disperse hundreds of Kashmiri demonstrators protesting possible U.S. attacks on Afghanistan. (Fayaz Kabli/Reuters)