NEW DELHI: India's home minister said Wednesday India was prepared to withdraw a "significant" number of troops from the occupied Kashmir.Briefing lawmakers in parliament, P. Chidambaram noted that violence in the region had dropped in the past few years.
"I would take what appears to be a risky step of withdrawing a significant number of battalions of security forces in Kashmir," the minister told members of parliament, according to Indian news agency.
"We are now transferring more and more law and order duties to the Kashmir police," the news agency quoted Chidambaram as saying.
Chidambaram, however, did not state how many troops would be withdrawn or give a timetable for their pullout.
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