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Only four of 15 rebels post a win

People's Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mufti Mohammed Sayeed inveigled himself into the chief ministerial race yesterday as the bargaining for power in Jammu and Kashmir continued to thrive through Friday night and all of yesterday.

The traumatic, occasionally lethal, roller-coaster ride from militancy to helping India's forces appears to have ended for many former militants in the hurly-burly of politics.