Kathua district
A relatively safe regional pocket , Kathua was spared the decade-long insurrection sparked by the Khalistan separatist movement in Punjab State on the Indian side of Punjab region that ended in the early 1990s , just to its south , and the ongoing insurgency in Kashmir Valley further to the north , beginning in the 1980s . 
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