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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In places like Congo and Kosovo, peacekeepers have been accused of abusing the people they're protecting.
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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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SRINAGAR, India  - Books are back on the shelves of insurgency-wracked Kashmir which has been blighted by a literary drought for several years.
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While leftist critics entertained high hopes of deeply wounding the Bush administration over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, they will now have to shelve their hopes for another day.
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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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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.
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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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Having reached out to Kashmiris during a two-day visit to the region, the prime minister heads this weekend to the country's volatile northeast, where public anger is high over alleged abuses by Indian soldiers.
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NEW DELHI &#151; One day after Pakistan's president proposed a demilitarization of the violence-wracked 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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on the issue, which lies at the heart of a rivalry between the nuclear-armed nations. year of talks that have largely skirted the divided Himalayan territory of Kashmir, they face problems taking the peace process forward.
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More than 300 people have been killed in police custody in the disputed Indian state of Kashmir since a Muslim insurgency began in 1989, according to a police report.
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Dozens of Palestinians detained while leaving a besieged refugee camp in Lebanon have complained of abuse by the Lebanese army, ranging from beatings to some cases of sexual abuse, human and civil rights activists say.
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BAMIYAN, Afghanistan  - Life is grim when you   can't pay the rent on a scorpion-infested cave, there is no job   in sight and desperate people are waiting to take your spot.
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Some question whether it will be enough to quell the violence and worry about the impact of prolonged tours.
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SRINAGAR, 29 November 2004 - In the worst incident of its kind in 15 years, an angry Indian paramilitary soldier gunned down seven of his colleagues and injured two others critically in north Kashmirâs Baramulla town, 54 km from here, around midnight.
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For years men and machines have toiled to clean up Kashmir's mirror-calm Dal Lake to remove choking weeds, lily pads and other water plants that have tarnished the image of the famed tourist attraction.