Sun 11 August 2019: Taiwanese scholar says China-India relations have been managed well in recent past India’s recent move on the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir was an attempt to check China’s growing influence in the region, said a Taiwanese scholar. Chien-Yu Shih, Secretary General of the Taiwan-based Association of Central Asian Studies, told […]
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A girl holds a sign and shouts slogans during a protest against the scrapping of the special constitutional status for Kashmir by the government, in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday. — Reuters Sun 11 August 2019: A meeting of the Congress’ top decision-making body to appoint its next chief was briefly halted after reports of […]
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Sat 10 August 2019: Russian revolutionary leader Lenin once said, “Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.” If we apply this to Narendra Modi and India, we can see that the Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy counts among his closest allies both Israel and Myanmar. That […]
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Sat 10 August 2019: Troops fire in the air as thousands rally in Indian-administered Kashmir’s main city to denounce region’s status change. Indian security forces have fired tear gas and shot live rounds in the air to disperse mass protests in Indian-administered Kashmir’s main city as thousands rallied against New Delhi’s stripping of the region’s autonomy, […]
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Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was received at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse bt Chinese Foreign with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Friday. Fri 09 August 2019: With Pakistan’s foreign minister in Beijing to discuss the Kashmir crisis, and his Indian counterpart following on Sunday, China looks set to involve itself in the […]
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“All kinds of Indian content have been stopped,” Special Assistant to PM on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said. Fri 09 August 2019: Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has launched a “Say No to India” campaign as the government bans all cultural exchanges with its neighbor amid the continuing escalation of the […]
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Khan was on his way to a playing field just outside his house when he was attacked, according to his cousin [Adnan Bhat/Al Jazeera] Fri 09 August 2019 Srinagar residents share deitails of how some residents are fighting for their lives amid lockdown. Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – On Tuesday evening, Asrar Khan, a grade-11 student was […]
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Fri 09 August 2019: The Indian government has revoked the special status of Indian-administered Kashmir in its constitution, the most far-reaching political move on the disputed region in nearly seven decades. In the lead-up to the move, India sent thousands of additional troops to the disputed region, imposing a crippling curfew, shutting down telecommunications and internet, and arresting political […]
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Thu 08 August 2019: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the nation Thursday night that he stripped Kashmir of its statehood and special constitutional status in order to free the disputed Himalayan region of “terrorism and separatism.” Modi’s Hindu-nationalist government imposed an unprecedented security lockdown and a near-total communications blackout in the Muslim-majority region since […]
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Thu 08 August 2019: Signing up to the ‘war on terror’ – especially ‘Islamist terror’ – may seem natural for two states built on colonial partition whose security is threatened by Muslim neighbours “When I heard the first news report, I assumed it was an Israeli air raid on Gaza. Or Syria. Airstrikes on a “terrorist camp” were the […]
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