The 1995 Kidnapping of western tourists in Kashmir was an act of kidnapping of six Western tourists by Al-Faran, a Kashmiri Islamist militant organisation from the Liddarwat area of Pahalgam in Anantnag district in south Jammu and Kashmir on 4 July 1995.
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