Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1615 GMT, April 3

At least six militants were killed and several others injured when security forces launched an operation in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province on Friday afternoon, local media reported.

Dunya TV reported that the paramilitary troops Frontier Corps ( FC) launched a search operation on an intelligence tip-off in Loralai district of the Balochistan province.(Pakistan-Militants)

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TOKYO -- Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama intends to attend the memorial events in China marking the 70th anniversary of the victory of anti-Japanese war in September, local media reported on Friday.

Murayama was quoted by Kyodo News Agency as saying, "If I receive a formal invitation, I am planning to go."(Japan-Tomiichi Murayama)

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NEW DELHI -- Indian President Pranab Mukherjee has signed off on the land acquisition ordinance, which was reissued last week under unusual circumstances after the government failed to pass it in Parliament, said local TV channel NDTV Friday.

This is also the first time for the president to bypass one house of the Parliament, the Upper House, to sign the ordinance to let it be re-promulgated.(India-Land)

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SRINAGAR -- At least seven members of a family were feared killed Friday after their house was hit by a massive landslide, due to rains in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.

The house came under mud and buried the residential house along with inmates at village Dawalkund of Doda, 255 km south of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir.( Kashmir-Landslide) Endi