[Reader-list] Another Amarnath Pilgrimage: Exactly A Year Ago

[Pawan Durani]

*21 July 2007*

Fifteeen Amarnath piligrims were injured in a grenade explosion at Pahalgam,
the base camp of the Amarnath Yatra, on Saturday afternoon, officials said.
A police official said that unknown persons hurled a grenade when a group of
Amarnath cave shrine pilgrims, mostly sadhus, were in the compound of a
Gurdwara near police station Pahalgam where a 'langar' was organized.
http://www.greaterkashmir.com/Full_Story.asp?Cat=1&ItemID=41&date=22_7_2007



*6 August, 2002*****

Nine people died and 37 were injured after a camp of Hindu pilgrims at
Nunwan, near the resort town of Pahalgam, was attacked by suspected Islamic
militants.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2175168.stm



*30 July, 2002***

..............two people have been killed and another three wounded in a
suspected militant attack on Hindu pilgrims.

The incident happened when a grenade was thrown at a taxi south of Srinagar
on its way to the Amarnath cave shrine.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2161517.stm

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*August 1, 2000***

Twenty five persons, a number of them yatris, were killed and over 30
injured when militants attacked a ``langar'' in a Pahalgam health resort en
route to the Amarnath cave this evening. Two militants were also killed when
security forces ambushed them. Curfew has been imposed in Pahalgam.

http://www.hinduonnet.com/2000/08/02/stories/01020003.htm