Kashmir violence falls to all time low - police


	Kashmir violence falls to all time low - police

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4-2-2007 2:44 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c92744f4-e4b9-4d3d-96c6-d98c769adcd1/BF538E3A-88FD-474F-9C86-5750CAE66FCC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.gulfnews.com/world/India/10115310.html" href="http://www.gulfnews.com/world/India/10115310.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.gulfnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gulfnews.com/world/India/10115310.html"><P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana" color="#000000">The number of daily killings in Jammu and Kashmir has fallen by more than two-thirds, the lowest in the past 17 years, a police official said yesterday.</FONT></p> <P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana" color="#000000">A halting peace process between India and Pakistan is believed to have cut the number of militants fighting Indian rule in its portion of Kashmir.</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gulfnews.com/world/India/10115310.html"><P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana" color="#000000">"In the past few years, there has been a considerable decline in violence. The killings have come down from 10 a day in 2001 to three a day in 2006," a senior security official said.</FONT></p> <P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana" color="#000000">"This has been the lowest figure since the insurgency erupted in late 1989."</FONT></p> <P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana" color="#000000">But people are still being killed in daily shootouts and occasional grenade and bomb attacks in the Himalayan region</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gulfnews.com/world/India/10115310.html"><P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana" color="#000000">After the fall in violence, New Delhi said last week it would set up a panel of experts to determine whether to reduce troop numbers across Kashmir.</FONT></p> <P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana" color="#000000">Roughly 500,000 troops are deployed in the region.</FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BF538E3A-88FD-474F-9C86-5750CAE66FCC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>