In Kashmir, Abuses Bruise Hopes for Peace
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At first, said Syed Rehman Mir, the policemen treated him with the deference he had come to expect as a senior government doctor in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. They graciously accepted his offer of tea, he recalled, and assured him they just had a few questions. Would he mind accompanying them to the station house for half an hour?
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SRINAGAR, India  - Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims,  scarred by 15 years of violence, celebrated Eid al-Fitr Sunday,  days after India announced it would reduce the number of troops  in the disputed Himalayan territory.
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Indian Kashmir was hit by clashes between police and protesters as separatists held a general strike marking the anniversary of the execution of a prominent rebel, witnesses said.
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Shops and businesses were shut and traffic was light in many parts of Indian Kashmir on Wednesday after separatists called a strike to mark the 57th anniversary of the arrival of Indian troops in the region.
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Pakistan and India have reported progress in their year-long peace process but they remain far apart on ways to resolve their territorial dispute over Kashmir, the cause of two of the three wars between them.
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Hope for progress toward peace in the region is tempered by a Palestinian power vacuum.
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India News, Srinagar: Shops and businesses were shut and traffic was scant in many parts of Kashmir on Wednesday after separatists called a strike to mark the 57th anniversary of the arrival of Indian troops in the region.
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SRINAGAR: Illegal fencing by India of Line of Control in Kashmir has been going in violation of agreements and most of the projected work is reportedly nearing completion.
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CHAKOTHI, Pakistan &#151; These days business is brisk at Muhammad Shabir Abbasi's grocery shop, after years of enduring mortar and artillery fire between Indian and Pakistani forces fighting on the front line that divides Kashmir.
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ANANTNAG, India - Two days after the first Indian troops pulled out of Kashmir, shopkeeper Ghulam Nabi Kharali was walking along a village road when a soldier stopped and started shouting at him.
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India News, New Delhi,Rights activists and Muslim leaders were Thursday in shock after a key witness in the worst mass killing in the 2002 Gujarat communal violence did a dramatic volte-face, dealing a blow to efforts to get justice for victims.
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Signs of discord emerged between  India and Pakistan as foreign ministers from the nuclear-armed  rivals met on Sunday to review and advance a peace process that  has faltered recently over Kashmir.
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High hopes that 73,000 earthquake deaths would spur India and Pakistan to finally make peace over disputed Kashmir today lie buried beneath the rubble of repeated terror attacks.
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NEW DELHI -- One day after Pakistan's president proposed a demilitarization of the violence-racked Himalayan region of Kashmir, India's response was notably lukewarm, with an official making clear the proposal should not have been made first to reporters.
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Srinagar witnessed widespread public anger on Wednesday over the alleged rape of a woman and her daughter by an army officer. Youths took to the streets burning tyres in the morning.
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Pakistan's top human rights organisation  calls for access to a tribal area where it accuses the army of abuses.
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Blind and elderly, Sibani Kar, who was found unconscious last month in the streets of India&#39;s Kolkata where she had been begging, is hoping for peace before she dies.