Thu 03 September 2020: SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir – The Indian government on Wednesday announced that Kashmir will now have five official languages, ending Urdu’s 131-year reign as the only official language of the ethnically diverse and politically fraught region. Last year in August, when India scrapped the semi-autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir and […]
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Thu 27 August 2020: 400 journalists, civil society members write letter to Indian prime minister SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir – Hundreds of journalists have written a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling for the release of Kashmiri journalist Asif Sultan who was detained two years ago. The letter, released by the Committee for […]
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Mon 17 August 2020: SRINAGAR – The government in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir ordered high-speed internet to be restored in two of the disputed region’s 20 districts on a “trial basis” from Sunday night. High-speed internet services were restored in Ganderbal district in the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley and Udhampur district in Hindu-majority Jammu after a […]
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Sat 15 August 2020: Internet services snapped in disputed region, streets empty with paramilitary troops, police out in force SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir – Authorities enforced a security lockdown and cut off internet access in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, fearing protests in the disputed region on India’s 74th Independence Day. Mobile internet services […]
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Wed 12 August 2020: Saudi Arabia has abruptly ended a loan and oil supply deal to Pakistan over the country’s criticism of the Saudi-led Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) reponse to the Kashmir crisis. Pakistan was last week forced to repay a Saudi loan of $1 billion that the kingdom called in after Pakistan insisted […]
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Tue 11 August 2020: SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – The family members of three missing cousins in Indian-administered Kashmir have alleged that the Indian army killed the trio in a staged gunfight last month and passed them off as militants. Muhammad Yusuf, a sheep farmer, told Anadolu Agency that his son Abrar Ahmad, 25, […]
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Wed 05 August 2020: OIC rights body condemns extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, torture, detentions by Indian forces LAHORE, Pakistan (AA) – The human rights body of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday endorsed a call by UN experts for a probe into extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in Indian-administered Kashmir. In a statement […]
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Wed 05 August 2020: Strict restrictions prevent movement of people to mark 1st anniversary of revocation of autonomous status of Jammu-Kashmir SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Strict restrictions were imposed in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, as the day marked the first anniversary of India’s decision of revoking the seven-decade-long semi-autonomous status of the […]
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Tue 04 August 2020: Daughter of former chief minister says decision was to pave way for ‘Hindutva agenda’ to end region’s Muslim identity SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – The unilateral and illegal decision to scrap Article 370 by India which scrapped autonomous status of the state, increased isolation and betrayal amongst residents in Jammu […]
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Tue 28 July 2020: Syed Ali Geelani urges Kashmiri diaspora to demonstrate outside Indian embassies SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Veteran Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Geelani has urged Kashmiris to observe a shutdown on Aug. 5, the day when Indian administered Jammu and Kashmir lost it special status. In a statement released by his representative on […]
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