Fri 16 August 2019: Indian-American comedian Hasan Minhaj has spoken out against India’s Kashmir power grab, calling the communications blackout imposed upon the disputed territory “terrifying”. Parts of Kashmir that India controls have been under lockdown since August 4, with freedom of movement restricted and phones and the internet cut. A day later, New Delhi scrapped Article […]
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Fri 16 August 2019: The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to hold a rare meeting on Kashmir after India stripped the region of its autonomy, sparking a row with Pakistan, diplomats told AFP on Thursday. The meeting will take place behind closed doors on Friday morning, the diplomats said. Poland, which currently holds the council’s rotating presidency, […]
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Fri 16 August 2019: The lockdown of the Kashmir Valley, home to nearly seven million people, has drawn widespread criticism and on Friday, India’s Supreme Court heard a petition from a newspaper editor seeking to restore communication links so journalists can work. Telephone and internet links were cut and public assembly banned in Kashmir this […]
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Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi receives Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India at the Presidential Airport February 10, 2018. Fri 16 August 2019: Gulf Arab countries have remained mostly silent as India’s government moved to strip Jammu and Kashmir of its limited autonomy, impose a sweeping curfew in the […]
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Thu 15 August 2019: Pakistan said on Thursday three of its soldiers and five Indian troops were killed in cross-border exchange of fire in the contested Kashmir region, one of the deadliest clashes between the rival armies this year. Indian forces have increased firing along the contested border known as the Line of Control (LOC), […]
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Thu 15 August 2019: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has claimed that the silence of the international community on the possible threat of “genocide” against Kashmiri Muslims could lead to serious consequences, including a violent response from the Muslim world. “Will world silently witness another Srebrenica-type massacre & ethnic cleansing of Muslims in IOK [India […]
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Thu 15 August 2019: Hundreds of people, including members of Kashmir Student Action and the SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) India Society, have gathered at Trafalgar Square in London to protest the recent decision by the Indian authorities to divide Jammu and Kashmir into two territories. The move comes after India scrapped Article 370, […]
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Thu 15 August 2019: On India’s independence day, Narendra Modi defends decision to strip disputed region of autonomy as lockdown continues. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hailed his “path-breaking” move to strip the Kashmirregion it administers of its autonomy in a strongly worded speech marking India’s independence day. Parts of Indian-administered Kashmir – the other part is […]
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Thu 15 August 2019: The ‘Hitler’s Den’ pool parlor that shocked me on a round-India trip 10 years ago was no outlier. Admiration for Nazism – often reframed with a genocidal hatred for Muslims – is rampant in the Hindu nationalist camp, which has never been as mainstream as it is now. July 2008. I […]
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