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India pulls out about 3,000 troops from Kashmir JAMMU, India, Sunday (Reuters) India pulled out around 3,000 troops from Kashmir on Saturday in a planned withdrawal of army units from the region, officials said, as the peace process between New Delhi and Islamabad came under strain this week. Last week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in a move to give momentum to the sluggish India-Pakistan peace process, announced New Delhi would withdraw troops in Kashmir which has been the cause of two out of three wars between the two nuclear rivals. He cited a sharp drop in separatist guerrilla attacks in the Himalayan territory as the reason for the reduction. India has at least 400,000 troops in Kashmir. "Around 3,000 troops of three different army units involved in counter-terrorism operations have been de-inducted from the border district of Rajouri on Saturday," a defence official, who did not want to be named, told Reuters. |
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