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      <title>2019 Pulwama Attack: Introduction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway is a lifeline and a target. Carved through the mountains of Indian-administered Kashmir, it is the only reliable road connecting the valley to the rest of India -- and on 14 February 2019, a convoy of 78 vehicles carrying more than 2,500 Central Reserve Police Force personnel was moving along it when a vehicle packed with explosives rammed into one of the buses near Lethapora in the Pulwama district. Forty CRPF personnel were killed. It was the deadliest terror attack on India's security forces in Kashmir since the insurgency began in 1989, and its consequences would reach far beyond the blast site.]]></description>
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      <title>2019 Pulwama Attack: A Valley on Edge</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The attack did not emerge from a vacuum. Kashmir is a disputed territory claimed by both India and Pakistan, and the decades since 1989 have claimed roughly 70,000 lives in the cycle of insurgency and crackdown. Unrest had intensified after Indian forces killed the popular milita...]]></description>
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      <title>2019 Pulwama Attack: Three Minutes on Highway 44</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The convoy had left Jammu around 3:30 in the morning, swollen with personnel because the highway had been closed for the previous two days. A Maruti Eeco van carrying more than 300 kilograms of explosives, driven by 22-year-old Adil Ahmad Dar from the nearby town of Kakapora, acc...]]></description>
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      <title>2019 Pulwama Attack: Escalation Between Nuclear Powers</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[India's response was swift and military. On 26 February, twelve Mirage 2000 jets of the Indian Air Force crossed the Line of Control and struck what India described as a Jaish-e-Mohammed training camp near Balakot, Pakistan. Pakistan scrambled its own jets, and the following day ...]]></description>
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      <title>2019 Pulwama Attack: The Human Cost Beyond the Numbers</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[State funerals were held across India for the forty fallen personnel, most of them young men from states like Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and Rajasthan who had joined the paramilitary for steady government employment. Protests, shutdowns, and candlelight vigils swept the country. But ...]]></description>
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