India’s top court upholds end of special status for Kashmir, orders polls
New Delhi, IndiaReuters India’s Supreme Court upheld on Monday a 2019 decision by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revoke special status for the state of Jammu and Kashmir and set a deadline of 30th September next year for local polls to be held. India’s only Muslim-majority region, Jammu and Kashmir has been […]
POSTCARDS: NO WEB, NO JOBS – KASHMIRIS BOARD THE “INTERNET EXPRESS”
ATHAR PARVAIZ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how young Kashmiri’s are grappling with the longest internet blackout ever imposed by a democracy…
Thousands protest in Indian Kashmir over new status despite clampdown
Srinigar, IndiaReuters Indian police used tear gas and pellets to fight back at least 10,000 people protesting Delhi’s withdrawal of special rights for Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir state in its main city of Srinagar on Friday, a police official and two witnesses said. The demonstration soon after Friday prayers was the largest since authorities locked […]
India scraps special status for Kashmir in step Pakistan calls illegal
New Delhi, IndiaReuters India on Monday revoked the special status of Kashmir, the Himalayan region that has long been a flashpoint in ties with neighbouring Pakistan, moving to grasp its only Muslim-majority region more tightly. In the most far-reaching political move in one of the world’s most militarised regions in nearly seven decades, India said […]