, AFP, 27 May 2010

EXCERPT: "Less than half of residents in both the Indian and Pakistani zones of Kashmir favour independence as a solution to end unrest in the disputed Himalayan region, a survey said Thursday. Conducted by British academic Robert Bradnock, the independent survey found that 44 percent of people in Pakistani-administered Kashmir favour independence, and 43 percent in Indian-administered Kashmir. United Nations resolutions soon after the partition of the sub-continent in 1947 called for a plebiscite to determine whether the region should belong to India or Pakistan, both of which claim Kashmir in full. 'These results support the already widespread view that the plebiscite options are likely to offer no solution to the dispute,' said the survey, which was released by the London-based Chatham House think-tank."

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