In Kashmir, Abuses Bruise Hopes
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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.
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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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AHMEDABAD, India  - Five years after their loved ones were brutally killed and they were forced to flee, thousands of Muslim victims of one of India's worst religious riots have pleaded for help to return home.
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Children in Pakistan are increasingly exposed to abuse, kidnapping and violence, a new report says.
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NEW DELHI: The three Indians held hostage by militants in Iraq feared the worst several times during their 42-day captivity, though their captors repeatedly gave them hope of freedom.
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DANNA, Pakistan  - Zafar Iqbal had hoped to have finished rebuilding his house before snow covers the mountains of Kashmir.
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Relief supplies were arriving in south Asia Wednesday, but getting them where they&#39;re needed the most is proving to be a challenge.
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Grieving relatives of people who have disappeared in Kashmir's 17-year insurgency took their protests to the doorsteps of the Indian government on Thursday, staging a day-long hunger strike to press for information.
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From the destruction that swept over south Asia claiming more than 115,000 lives, hope is emerging in one stricken country that relief efforts are diverting a path to civil war.
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The South Asian tragedy has ripped open centuries-old fault lines of caste in rural India's rigid social hierarchy. In the district of Nagapattinam, where more than 6,000 people died, untouchables from about 10 villages have openly protested what they call discrimination against them in the provision of relief supplies and access to shelters.
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Plagued by mounting attacks by Islamist militants loyal to al Qaeda, Pakistan now faces a second wave of violence as its minority Shi'ite Muslims prepare for their annual mourning period.
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Moderate separatists in Indian-administered Kashmir went on a day-long fast to protest alleged human rights abuses by Indian troops, police and witnesses said.
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SRINAGAR, Nov. 13 (XinhuaNET) -- Markets are overcrowded, traffic jam is heavy and the shops are jostling with shoppers in the capital city of Srinagar in the Indian-administered Kashmir as theholy Moslem festival of Eid approaches here.
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Terrorism News, Srinagar,Operations to flush out guerrillas possibly still holed up in a camp of security forces in Jammu and Kashmir resumed Friday, a day after the rebels barged in and killed five paramilitary personnel.
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NARATHIWAT, Thailand : The deaths and beatings that followed last month&#39;s demonstration in southern Thailand have left an indelible mark on the psyche of the Muslims living
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Indian prisons are "a national disgrace" where 11 people have died and hundreds of others have escaped or tried to kill themselves the past three years, government officials said Tuesday, likening it to the U.S. military's mistreatment of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib.
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Although Anil Kumble picked up six wickets in the first innings, he had to toil hard to pierce South Africa&#39;s dogged batting. But he held out hope that the match could still be something of a contest if things go well for India tomorrow.