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Six western tourists and their two guides were kidnapped in the Liddarwat area of Pahalgam in the Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, India on 4 July 1995 by forty militants from the Kashmiri Islamist militant organisation Harkat-ul-Ansar, [a] [1] under the pseudonym of Al-Faran, [2] in order to secure the release of Harkat leader Masood Azhar and other militants.
Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir Notes International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir Jammu & Kashmir Human Rights Commission Papa II 1990 Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus 1990 Gawkadal massacre 1990 Zakoora and Tengpora massacre 1991 1991 Kunan Poshpora incident 1993 1993 Lal Chowk fire 1993 Bijbehara massacre 1993 Kishtwar massacre 1993 Sopore massacre 1995 1995 ...
Pages in category "Attacks on tourists in Kashmir" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... 1995 kidnapping of western tourists in Kashmir; N.
The now-adult survivor of a kidnapping and sexual assault in 1995 is sharing her story for the first time in an effort to keep the man who attacked her behind bars.
Kidnapping: 6 0 Pahalgam, India 1995 Kidnapping of western tourists in Kashmir: Six western tourists (two British, two American, one German and one Norwegian) were kidnapped and held for ransom by Islamic radicals and murdered over the following several months. Al-Faran: Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir: July 24 Suicide bombing 6 (+1 perpetrator) 30
1995 kidnapping of western tourists in Jammu and Kashmir – Six foreign trekkers from Anantnag district were kidnapped by Al Faran. One was beheaded later, one escaped, and the other four remain missing, presumably killed.
23 June 1995: 6 hours 1995 kidnapping of western tourists in Kashmir: Pahalgam, India 4 July 1995: Unknown Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis: Budyonnovsk, Russia 14 June 1995: 5 days Air France Flight 8969: Algiers, Algeria, Marseille, France 24 December 1994: 3 days 232 1994 kidnappings of western tourists in India: New Delhi, India 20 ...
As a response the group carried out several kidnappings in an attempt to free their leaders, all of which failed. It was linked to the Kashmiri group al-Faran that kidnapped five Western tourists in Kashmir in July 1995; one, Hans Christian Ostrø, was killed in August 1995 and the other four reportedly were killed in December of the same year.