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"Kashmir-A Troubled Paradise"


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Relatives mourn the death of Samreena Iqbal, 18, who was killed ina an attack on Kashmir 's Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Syed in Beeru, 25 miles west of Srinagar, February 27, 2004. The chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir escaped after two grenades were thrown.A spokesman of Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen, a hardline Kashmiri group, called newspaper offices in Srinagar to say they had carried out the attack. Guerrilla violence in Kashmir has continued unabated despite peace moves by India and Pakistan, who both claim the Himalayan region.
 

 

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