1.   Four militants, meanwhile, were gunned down in separate overnight encounters with Indian security troops, an army officer said Thursday.

2.   In the southern district of Poonch, four militants were killed and four civilians injured in two separate overnight encounters, police said.

3.   Indian security forces shot dead seven Islamic militants in three separate overnight encounters in Indian-administered Kashmir, a police spokesman said Friday.

4.   Indian security forces shot dead thirteen Muslim militants, including a top field commander, during separate overnight encounters in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said Wednesday.

5.   Indian border guards shot dead another three militants in an overnight encounter in the central Kashmir district of Budgam.

6.   A militant and a civilian were killed during a fierce overnight encounter in the village of Malwan in the southern Anantnag district.

7.   And two militants and an Indian army soldier were killed in two separate overnight encounters in southern Kashmir districts of Poonch and Anantnag.

8.   The talks followed an overnight encounter between PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres at the Erez crossing from Israel into the autonomous Gaza Strip.

9.   Two separatist Muslim militants and an army soldier were killed in a fierce overnight encounter in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said Sunday.

10.   Two more militants died in separate overnight encounters elsewhere in the disputed state.