India Vows to Restore Mobile Service in KashmirKashmir Updates -Sameer Yasir- 12 OCTOBER , 2019 NEW DELHI — After imposing a sweeping communications blackout in Kashmir two months ago, the Indian authorities announced on Saturday that cellphone service would be partly restored within days in the disputed Himalayan region, though the internet will remain blocked.…
Kashmir communications ban hits key climate studies Kashmir Updates -Athar Parvaiz- 11 OCTOBER , 2019 An important project on climate change has been disrupted by the prevailing security scenario and communication shutdown across Kashmir, say scientists at the University of Kashmir in Srinagar. The project is part of the Himalayan Alpine Dynamics Research Initiative (HIMADRI), in which…
60 days on, occupied Kashmir remains under siegeKashmir Updates -DAWN- 4 OCTOBER , 2019 The lockdown and communications blackout in occupied Kashmir entered its 61st day on Friday. Frustration, anger and fear have been growing in occupied Kashmir since August 5, when the Hindu nationalist-led government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stripped the region…
India’s judges are ignoring the government’s abuses in KashmirKashmir Updates -The Economists- 5 OCTOBER , 2019 Two months ago Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, boldly scrapped seven decades of legal precedent. Voiding Jammu & Kashmir’s semi-autonomous status, his government abolished its legislature, sliced the state in two and demoted the new parts to “union territories”, subject…
Kashmir has become an open air prison, says Iltija Mufti, Mehbooba Mufti’s daughterKashmir Updates -GULF NEWS- 3 OCTOBER , 2019 Iltija Mufti, daughter of Mehbooba Mufti, the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president, feels that Kashmir has been turned into an open air prison by the BJP-led government…
Standing with Pakistan on Kashmir is Turkey’s duty: Parliament speakerKashmir Updates -DAILY NEWS- 2 OCTOBER , 2019 Turkey sees standing by Pakistan on the issue of Kashmir as its duty, the Turkish parliament speaker said on Oct. 1. Speaking at the opening of the parliament’s third legislative session of the year in the capital Ankara, Mustafa Şentop said: “Our nation…
The U.N. Can’t Ignore Kashmir AnymoreKashmir Updates -THE NEW YORK TIMES- 2 OCTOBER , 2019 Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, was a man on a mission at the United Nations, imploring members last week to persuade India to lift its siege of Kashmir, a longtime flash point between the two nations, which both have nuclear…
‘Depressed, frightened’: Minors held in Kashmir crackdownKashmir Updates -NEWS/INDIA- 2 OCTOBER , 2019 Abrar Ahmad Ganai was taken into custody in the wake of a decision by the Indian government to strip Kashmir’s special status. He was sent several thousand kilometres away from his home to Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh state. Ganai was released last week…
Communications blockade in occupied Kashmir must end: US lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-CortezKashmir Updates -DAWN- 1 OCTOBER , 2019 In a post shared on Twitter, Ocasio-Cortez, who is among a group of progressive US congresswomen popularly known as “The Squad”, said: “We stand for the basic human dignity of Kashmiris [and] support democracy, equality, and human rights…
New York: Thousands rally for human rights in KashmirKashmir Updates -Al Jazeera- 29 September, 2019 New York, US – Gurpatwant Singh Pannun still has vivid memories of the summer of 1984. A teenager at the time, he remembers security forces taking boys from his village in Punjab in the aftermath of a deadly Indian army operation in the Golden Temple,…