January 25, 1990: Curfewpasses of over 30 Indian and foreignreporters staying in Srinagar's Broadway Hotel are cancelled. They areprevented from leaving the premises.
January 28, 1990: Sixjournalists—Douglas Curran (AFP), JonathanLanday (UPI), Dieter Ludwig ( Newsweek), Costa Sakellarion (Time), Sheila Tafit(Christian Science Monitor) and Tan MacWilliam (Freelancer) are expelled fromSrinagar as their presence is "prejudicial to the security of thestate".
February 2, 1990: The BSF seize the dummy of the upcoming issue of Global Topic (sinceclosed down). Its editor Surinder Singh Oberoi is arrested. He is asked byGovernor Jagmohan to reveal the newspaper's financial sources. The copy isreturned censored and the editor freed after a 10-hour interrogation.
April 1990 FourSrinagar-based newspapers Aftab, Al-Safa, Wadi Ki Awaz and Azan are closed forpublishing "subversive material". All but Azan resume publication inMay
May 1, 1990:Militantsban the national newspapers in Kashmir.
June 2, 1990: BBCCorrespondentYusuf Jameel isdetained and questioned about a colleague'salleged contacts with militants.
October 2, 1990: A powerful bomb explodesat the Srinagar Times office. No one claims responsibility. The office is laterransacked.
April 23, 1991:KhwajaMohammad ShabanVakil, owner and editor of Al-Safa, is gunned down byunidentified gunmen at his office.
February 18, 1992:Agrenade is lobbed at the BBC's Srinagar office. No group claimsresponsibility. No one is injured
March 31, 1992:George Joseph of IndianExpress is directed by the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen to leave Kashmir for "beingbiased against the movement". The BBC office is damaged in a grenadeexplosion. None injured.
July 25, 1992:Farooq Raja, distributor ofHind Samachar is kidnapped. The paper had published an article accusingmilitants of raping awoman. A badly beaten Raja is later freed. The JKLF bansthe circulation of Jammu-based Kashmir Times for five days.
September 25, 1992 : Fivejournalists includ- ing Yusuf Jameel arrested and ruthlessly beaten by securityforces while covering a Dukhteran-e-Melat demonstration. They are hospitalisedfor over a week.
March 11, 1993 :Securityforces arrest and beat up Meraj-ud-Din and Fayaz Kabli, photographers of KashmirTimes covering a women's protest demonstration. A case under TADA isregistered against Ghulam Nabi Shaida, editor of Wadi Ki Awaz, for his'pro-militant reporting'.
April 10, 1993:AnAFP team headed by is fired at by Douglas Curran is fired at by the BSF whileclicking students wounded in a demonstration against an 'anti-Islamic'serial.
May 19, 1993:ShivSena Jammu, bansKashmir Times for being militant-friendly.
August 26, 1993 :Youth claiming to be Al Jehad militantsloot computers and a UNI ticker from the Greater Kashmir office.
August 28, 1993:The JKLF bans Srinagar Times.
September 10, 1993: Aftabceases publica- tion following a threat by Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen for notpublishing the statement of Dr Inayatullah Andrabi.
October 18, 1993: TheBSF arrests and tortures Greater Kashmir reporter Mukhtar Ahmad Baba. He isreleased the next day and hospitalised for over a fortnight.
July 14, 1994: Thearmed forces arrest and interrogateParvaz Sulan of the daily Ugab on charges of having advance informationabout a rocket attack on their camp.
July 1994: Hizb-ul-Mujahideen bans Kashmir Times for amonth.
August 29, 1994:Masked gunmen kill free-lance reporter Ghulam Mohammad Lone and hisseven-year-old son at their home. The killing follows reports in vernacularpapers that he had received threats from an army officer.
October 16,1994: All30 daily newspapers stop publication for a week in protest against themilitants' diktats.
October 20, 1994 : Amilitant groups Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen seals the offices of Al Safa News andSrinagar Times for publishing a government advertisement on elections.
November 7, 1994: Newspaperscease publication following a J&K Freedom Front statement accusing them ofreporting offi-cial versions. The strike is called off on November 13.
December 7, 1994: MukhtarAhmad of the ABC and Independent is arrested and interrogated and hisoffice fax machine seized.
January 16, 1995:Militantslob a grenade on Greater Kashmir and damage the outer wall of its compound. Noone is injured.
July 6, 1995: Four journalists including two editors arekidnapped at gun point by Kukka Parray, leader of the Ikhwan-ul-Muslimoon. Theyare freed after 42 journalists travel to his Hajan hideout and promise to givehim publicity.
September 7, 1995: Aparcel bomb dropped at the BBC officeby a lady injures three journalists Yusuf Jameel, Habibullah Naqash and MushtaqAli. Mushtaq, an ANI videographer, breathes his last three days later. Jameel iscalled to London by the BBC where he continues to stay. Militants mourn thedeath for three days
September 19, 1995: WarringJKLF factions threaten press peoplewith dire consequences if they publish claims and counter claims. As a result,the press ceases to function for 11 days.
December 8, 1995:Zafar Meraj, correspondent for Outlook and Zee News, is kidnapped and shot inthe abdomen and shoulder.
Journalists who arrive late at a press conferenceheld by a JKLF faction are beaten up.
