Wed 28 August 2019: Over the weekend the UAE bestowed Indian prime minister Narendra Modi with the country’s highest civilian honour – induction into the Order of Zayed, effectively turning a blind eye to his government’s continuing crackdown in the Himalayan region of Kashmir. The Muslim majority territory has come under a renewed clampdown this month as […]
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Wed 28 August 2019: Weeks after India initiated its ongoing military crackdown and communications blackout in Kashmir, activist Kavita Krishnan says that Islamophobia has played a “huge role” in justifying India’s encroachments on the region’s autonomy. “What they are doing is that they are projecting this victory over Kashmir, this triumph over this rebellious Muslim […]
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Wed 28 August 2019: Since India enforced a crackdown on the disputed territory of Kashmir on Aug. 5, people in the region have been under a severe communications lockdown and experienced shortages of food and medicine. Kashmiri women and girls have expressed particular anger about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statements implying that the change in […]
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Wed 28 August 2019: In Kashmir, residents have entered their fourth week of a severe lockdown after India revoked the special status of the Indian-controlled part of the Muslim-majority territory. On August 5, India imposed a curfew and cut off all communications to the region. More than 4,000 people, including many political leaders, have been […]
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Wed 28 August 2019: We continue our conversation with acclaimed author Arundhati Roy by discussing the overlooked conflict in Kashmir, the center of a decades-long dispute between India and Pakistan. Roy joins us along with Sanjay Kak, a New Delhi-based documentary filmmaker whose most recent film is “Jashn-e-Azadi or How We Celebrate Freedom,” and who […]
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Wed 28 August 2019: Is Kashmir occupied territory? After its Hindu king signed the instrument of accession 70 years ago, the region remains in an unresolved conflict. Here’s how it all started. Courtesy: TRT World Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!
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Tue 27 August 2019: The conflict in Kashmir has gone unresolved for 70 years. As one of the world’s longest-running territorial disputes, it’s killed thousands of people. And renewed violence in the past year has dashed hopes an end could be just around the corner. But with both nations now armed with nuclear weapons, a […]
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File Photo: Prime Minister Imran Khan met with Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman Tue 27 August 2019: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, received on Monday a telephone call from Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. Khan briefed the Crown Prince on the latest developments in Kashmir. Indian […]
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Tue 27 August 2019: “If I owned a newspaper, my headline tomorrow would just be the word ’20’ because it is the twentieth day that the people of Kashmir have been subjected to these restrictions on their freedoms,” says Kannan Gopinathan. New Delhi: An officer of the Indian Administrative Service from Kerala, Kannan Gopinathan, has resigned […]
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Tue 27 August 2019: Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar has urged Indian authorities in occupied Kashmir to respect human rights and to de-escalate the rapidly deteriorating situation in the disputed valley after India’s illegal and unilateral move of August 5. In a tweet, that comes a day after a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister […]
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