Kashmir violence falls to record low
Afp, Srinagar
The average daily death toll from insurgency-related violence in Indian Kashmir has fallen to its lowest level since the revolt began nearly 18 years ago, officials said yesterday. Daily killings have dropped to two from ten in 2001 and a peak of 13 in 1996 when the revolt was at its height with daily bomb explosions, gunbattles and ambushes, according to official police records in Indian Kashmir. "Violence has fallen to an all-time low since 1989," said a police officer, who asked not to be named, referring to the year when the separatist revolt began in the Muslim-majority Himalayan region. The fall in daily deaths comes against the backdrop of a slow-moving peace process between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India, each of which hold the region in part and claim it in full.
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