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Climate stresses push Kashmir's poor into militancy, Pakistan experts warn

2015-01-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Financial hardship after a failed apple crop forced Aqeel Ahmed to give up his studies aged 20 and join a militant group fighting Indian rule across the border in the disputed territory of Kashmir. His family, as in many remote villages in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, had banked on earning half a million rupees ($5,000) from their orchard that year. But a sudden cold snap followed by torrential rains and a frost wrecked the apple blossom, dashing their hopes of making enough to buy food. "I...

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