The easy availability of guns and their increasing use have begun to worry police officials. “In fact, the current craze is for sophisticated weapons, not for video or colour television”, says a senior Delhi police officer.
Pakistan’s military authorities freed more than 1,000 political prisoners on the eve of Id-ul-Zuha as an opposition civil disobedience campaign demanding an end to martial law completed its fifth week.
He said that in the process three persons had been tortured to death.
The J&K CM said he would not allow Delhi to repeat the unconstitutional ouster of his father in 1953.
President Zia-uI-Haq of Pakistan stopped just short of openly blaming India for disturbances flowing from protests against his martial law regime but hoped it would not affect the Indo-Pak normalisation process.
Three missiles fired by Soviet fighters brought down the South Korean Airlines jumbo jet carrying 269 people which disappeared the day before, the Kyodo news agency reported.