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Highway Blockade * India - Kashmir short of essentials after that
Srinagar,Kshmir,India -Reuters, by Sheikh Mushtaq -Aug 5, 2008: -- India's Muslim-majority Kashmir valley was running short of food, fuel and medical supplies after Hindu protesters blocked traffic on Tuesday on the main highway during protests that have killed two policemen... Hindus in Kashmir's winter capital of Jammu, protesting against the state government for backing down on transferring forest land to a Hindu shrine trust, have attacked lorries carrying essential supplies to the Kashmir valley... Trader associations said lorries loaded with vital goods like medicines, vegetables, meat and fuel were stranded on the region's main 300-km (185 mile) highway, the only surface link between the Kashmir valley and the rest of India... The controversy over the issue of land for a Hindu trust has polarised Indian Kashmir, split between the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley and the Hindu-dominated region around Jammu...
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