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GEO World****Kashmir working group recommends autonomy Updated at: 1555 PST, Thursday, December 24, 2009
SRINAGAR: High-level advisers appointed by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are recommending autonomy for Kashmir, where militants have fought for 20 years against rule from New Delhi.
The advisory group, headed by former supreme court judge Saghir Ahmad, recommended that the prime minister look at various formulations “to restore the autonomy to the extent possible”.
The group’s report was delivered to the Kashmir chief minister late Wednesday and made public Thursday.
The Kashmir legislative assembly in 2000 passed a resolution favouring full restoration of the state’s autonomy. But India’s then Hindu-nationalist government rejected the resolution passed unanimously by the assembly.
Autonomy is the main demand of the ruling National Conference, the state’s biggest pro-India political party, which had moved the resolution in 2000.
“We will react only after going through the report. It is a long report,” said Ali Mohammed Sagar, held Kashmir’s law and parliamentary minister.
Singh had appointed the working group in May 2006 to try to find a permanent solution to the unrest in the scenic Himalayan region, which is split between India and Pakistan.