Mon 14 October 2019: Some 40 lakh postpaid mobile phones have become operational from Monday noon. Internet connectivity, however, will remain suspended for now. 72 days after mobile and internet communications were blocked in the Kashmir Valley by the government, postpaid mobile services on all networks in the valley have been restored. The restoration of […]
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Fri 11 October 2019: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday expressed puzzlement over the disproportionate amount of coverage accorded to the dire human rights situation in Indian-occupied Kashmir by the international media, especially in context of the widespread coverage of the Hong Kong protests. In a series of posts on the social networking website Twitter, […]
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Wed 09 October 2019: Chinese President Xi Jinping has said he was watching the situation in Kashmir and would support Pakistan in issues related to its core interests, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Xi told Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan during a meeting in Beijing that the right and wrong of the situation was […]
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Tue 08 October 2019: Kashmir has now been under an Indian military imposed curfew and communications blackout since New Delhi revoked Article 370 of its constitution on 5 August, stripping the disputed territory of its semi-autonomous status. The BJP-led Indian government’s objective is clear: To make Kashmir and its people invisible to the rest of […]
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Tue 08 October 2019: Ravish Kumar is nervous about the “danger that Indian democracy is facing today” and how “a systematic attempt is being made by the ruling establishment in Delhi to suppress all the dissenting voices in the country. “Journalism prepares you to face the unknown everyday, so I was not really surprised when […]
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Tue 08 October 2019: Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh refused to relent in his critisicm of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for issuing despicable threats and speaking about hatred during his speech at the UNGA last month as he took on actress Veena Malik on social media. Harbhajan had tweeted, “At UNGA speech, there were indications […]
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Mon 07 October 2019: Hundreds of marchers protesting against the Indian decision to revoke Article 370 camped out on Sunday night in the Pakistan-administered Kashmir town of Chinari, about 10km (six miles) from the Line of Control (LoC), after Pakistani police stopped them from crossing the de facto border into Indian-administered Kashmir. The Jammu and […]
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Sat 05 October 2019: A United States Senator from the Democratic Party has claimed that the Indian authorities denied him permission to visit Kashmir when he expressed his willingness to visit Srinagar to assess the situation on the ground. US Senator Chris Van Hollen said he wanted to visit Kashmir to see what was happening […]
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Sat 05 October 2019: India on Friday criticised Turkey and Malaysia for their statements attacking New Delhi on the Kashmir issue. MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said India’s recent decision related to Jammu and Kashmir is an internal matter of the country. MEA on Malaysia raising Kashmir issue at UNGA: J&K signed Instrument of Accession like […]
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Thu 03 October 2019: An edited excerpt of Black Lives Matter activist Linda Cheriyan’s address at a vigil for Kashmir in Times Square, NYC, on September 27, 2019. I’m from India. India has a long history of oppressing their own people in quite the same way the United States has long-standing traditions of marginalizing communities […]
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