Kashmiri voting officials check electronic voting machines before dispatching them to polling stations in Srinagar May 6, 2009. Kashmir's separatist leaders are struggling to win back popular support, and are hoping that a boycott of Thursday's election to the Indian parliament may yet breathe new life into the 20-year movement. The appeal by the All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference to stay away from the vote in summer capital Srinagar, the hotbed of the separatist revolt, is seen as an attempt to deny New Delhi any credit for holding elections in the restive Himalayan region. REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR CONFLICT POLITICS ELECTIONS)
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