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<strong>Who is behind the killings of Kashmiri militants in Pakistan?</strong>
Updated at 2:30pm on March 21, 2023.

Editor’s note: We have decided to retract this article because it did not go through the Atlantic Council’s standard editorial process prior to publication and therefore did not meet our editorial standards. We regret the error.

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