PULWAMA, June 18: The jackal population of Kashmir valley has registered a "manifold" increase as a two-decade-old militancy has scared away poachers and hunters from the region. After the sunset jackals prowl in the countryside of the Valley striking fear among villagers. "We tell our children not to roam outside after dark nowadays," says Manzoor Ahmed Baba of Koyl area in Pulwama district. Experts attribute the sudden rise in the jackal population to the fact that hunting of the animals stopped with the outbreak...
