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An Indian army officer measures the chest of a candidate during an Indian army recruitment rally in Anantnag, some 65 kms south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, Thursday, 2 November 2006. Hundreds attended the rally organized by the Indian Army in the troubled Kashmir region, hoping to join the Indian Army. Half a million army and paramilitary soldiers have been fighting armed rebels since 1989 for the regions independence, or its merger with mostly Muslim Pakistan, that has claimed at least 67,000 lives so far.

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