Curfew continues after India removes Kashmir special status
5 years, 5 months ago

Curfew continues after India removes Kashmir special status

Al Jazeera  

Indian-administered Kashmir remained virtually cut off from the outside world for a second day on Tuesday, with phone and internet links shut down and thousands of troops enforcing a curfew. New Delhi has shut down mobile and internet services in Kashmir in times of turmoil before, but this time the blackout has included landlines and cable television networks. Monitoring groups say more than 70,000 people in Indian-administered Kashmir, most of them civilians, have died since then. India and Pakistan, partitioned when the Indian subcontinent gained independence from the British in 1947, have fought two of their three wars over the disputed region of Kashmir, which both claim in full but administer separate portions.

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Parts of Kashmir including Bhaderwah, Kishtwar observe curfew, internet suspension
2 years, 7 months ago

Parts of Kashmir including Bhaderwah, Kishtwar observe curfew, internet suspension

India TV News  

Highlights Parts of Kashmir including Doda, Bhaderwah and Kishtwar saw a curfew. Jammu Kashmir curfew: Over controversial remarks by two now-suspended BJP leaders against Prophet Mohammad, parts of Kashmir including Doda, Bhaderwah and Kishtwar saw internet suspension, curfew, and shutdown. Security forces have been deployed in strength at sensitive places in Srinagar and elsewhere in the Valley for maintaining law …

What is behind the recent surge in violence in Kashmir?
3 years, 2 months ago

What is behind the recent surge in violence in Kashmir?

Al Jazeera  

Spate of suspected rebel attacks and crackdown by Indian security forces since early October leaves 33 people dead in the region. A surge in violence in Indian-administered Kashmir in recent weeks, including a spate of suspected rebel attacks on civilians and a widespread crackdown by security forces, has left at least 33 people dead in the heavily militarised region since …

Restrictions, communication shutdown continue in Kashmir
3 years, 4 months ago

Restrictions, communication shutdown continue in Kashmir

The Hindu  

Restrictions on peoples movement and communication blackout continued in the Kashmir Valley on Friday after the death of separatist leader Syed Shah Geelani on Wednesday and his burial in the early hours of Thursday. Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar said Internet services on mobile phones would remain suspended till Sunday afternoon in Kashmir. Director General of Police Dilbag Singh …

Troops patrol Kashmir on anniversary of statehood revocation
3 years, 5 months ago

Troops patrol Kashmir on anniversary of statehood revocation

Associated Press  

SRINAGAR, India — Government forces patrolled much of Indian-controlled Kashmir and ordered shops and businesses to remain open Thursday to foil a planned strike by separatists on the second anniversary of India’s revocation of the disputed region’s semi-autonomy. “The paradox is that India has destroyed this place and are now forcing us to celebrate our subjugation and humiliation.” On Aug. …

Curfew in parts of Kashmir ahead of revocation anniversary
4 years, 5 months ago

Curfew in parts of Kashmir ahead of revocation anniversary

Associated Press  

SRINAGAR, India — Authorities imposed a curfew in many parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Tuesday, a day ahead of the first anniversary of India’s decision to revoke the disputed region’s semi-autonomy. “Indian government claims that it was determined to improve Kashmiri lives ring hollow one year after the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s constitutional status,” Meenakshi Ganguly, the New York-based …

Day-time curfew relaxation continues across Kashmir; students stay away despite administration's order to reopen schools
5 years, 4 months ago

Day-time curfew relaxation continues across Kashmir; students stay away despite administration's order to reopen schools

Firstpost  

Srinagar: The authorities on Wednesday continued with day-time relaxations across Kashmir, while students stayed away from schools despite the administration’s order of the reopening of educational institutions up to the middle classes across the Valley. Most of the schools, especially private-run institutes, wore deserted look as no student turned up to attend the classes even as a few staff members …

Kashmir remains paralyzed by lockdown as resentment simmers
5 years, 4 months ago

Kashmir remains paralyzed by lockdown as resentment simmers

CNN  

CNN — Eleven days after the Indian government suspended all communications in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the disputed region still has no contact with the outside world. In an unprecedented move, the Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi cut off the entire Jammu and Kashmir region at midnight on August 5. Less than 12 hours after the lockdown, Indian Home Minister …

No phone calls, no groceries: Kashmir on edge under lockdown
5 years, 5 months ago

No phone calls, no groceries: Kashmir on edge under lockdown

Associated Press  

SRINAGAR, India — Tens of thousands of government forces in riot gear patrol Indian-controlled Kashmir. Rabiya, who was left with blurred vision, said that after hearing the government’s announcement that Kashmir’s special status had been stripped, she thought to buy vegetables, anticipating a long curfew period in Srinagar. “We’ve no contact,” the middle-aged woman said before she could give her …

Kashmiris cut off from loved ones as government enforced blackout continues
5 years, 5 months ago

Kashmiris cut off from loved ones as government enforced blackout continues

CNN  

New Delhi CNN — For Kashmiri students living in India, Monday’s announcement that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was stripping their home – Jammu and Kashmir – of its special status came as a shock. “Immediately, I came out of my classroom and all the Kashmiri students were crying and some even collapsed.” In the days that followed, Yetoo tried to …

It is time to open up Kashmir
5 years, 5 months ago

It is time to open up Kashmir

Hindustan Times  

Kashmir has been locked up for three days. There is little information, except through official channels or sporadic satellite broadcasts, from the Valley about developments and the mood of the people. At a time like this, when there is understandable political anxiety in the Valley about its future, it is time for the Centre to lift restrictions, open up communication …

‘Darkest day’: Uproar as India strips Kashmir of special status
5 years, 5 months ago

‘Darkest day’: Uproar as India strips Kashmir of special status

Al Jazeera  

The Indian government’s decision to abolish a special status for India-administered Kashmir has been widely criticised and opposed, as tensions prevail over the constitutional autonomy of the disputed region. Monday’s announcement sparked chaotic scenes in parliament, with opposition politicians condemning the presidential decree revoking Article 370 of the constitution that gives the state of Jammu and Kashmir a substantial degree …

India imposes Kashmir lockdown, puts leaders ‘under house arrest’
5 years, 5 months ago

India imposes Kashmir lockdown, puts leaders ‘under house arrest’

Al Jazeera  

Restrictions on movement and assembly imposed and mobile internet suspended as disputed region plunges into uncertainty. Residents fear New Delhi is planning to engineer “demographic changes” in India‘s only Muslim-majority region by scrapping a law that prohibits outsiders from buying land in India-administered Kashmir. https://t.co/EGENEM6qUz — ANI August 4, 2019 Concerns over Article 35A Earlier on Sunday, former state Chief …

Shutdown observed in Kashmir on Burhan Wani's death anniversary
5 years, 6 months ago

Shutdown observed in Kashmir on Burhan Wani's death anniversary

India TV News  

Normal life came to a standstill in Kashmir on Monday as separatists called for a shutdown to mark the third death anniversary of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani and security forces imposed strict instructions to avoid any law and order situation, officials said. Wani, once a poster boy of militancy in the Valley, was killed in an encounter with security …

Curfew relaxed in entire Jammu city
5 years, 10 months ago

Curfew relaxed in entire Jammu city

The Hindu  

Authorities on February 20 relaxed curfew in the entire Jammu city for the first time since its imposition on February 15 as the situation improved. District Magistrate, Jammu, Ramesh Kumar, initially ordered relaxation in the curfew in the entire city from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and later extended till 3 p.m. as no untoward incident was reported from anywhere. …

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