KASHMIR-RIGHS
India's tribal women see little hope in election
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For years they've been told about the power they can wield with their votes, and how elections can bring so much change to this sprawling, often-chaotic nation. But few of these women, marooned at the fringes of Indian society, believe such talk anymore. They've been hardened by decades of forgotten promises, and by the countless politicians who showed up before elections with flowery w
Read Full ArticleKashmir’s Information Blockade-A Report by the Network of Women in Media
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A Report by the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) and the Free Speech Collective (FSC) A month after the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of India, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, on August 5, 2019, the continuing shutdown of communication in the Kashmir valley has resulted in the throttling of independent media. Laxmi Murth
Read Full ArticleICJ condemns Indian revocation of Article 370
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Indian paramilitary troopers stand guard at a roadblock at Maisuma locality in Srinagar The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has condemned the legislative steps taken by India in occupied Kashmir and urged the Indian government to "respect, protect and fulfil the human rights of people in Jammu and Kashmir." India rushed
Read Full ArticleCHINA REJECTS INDIAN MOVES IN KASHMIR
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BEIJING - Beijing has criticised India’s decision to change the status of Jammu and Kashmir, a state that borders China, accusing New Delhi of undermining its territorial sovereignty. China’s statement was most critical of the impact of India’s actions on the mainly Buddhist region of Ladakh - an area of strategic i
Read Full ArticleIndia used banned cluster bombs amid Kashmir tensions
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India used banned cluster bombs amid Kashmir tensions
Read Full ArticlePulwama, Pakistan and the China Factor
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Less than two months before the convening of the most important global gathering in the neighbourhood of Pakistan and India, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Forum in Beijing on April 25, the Pulwama Incident threatened the stability of the world’s most strategic region, where four nuclear powers interface with each other, while another, Israel, hovers in th
Read Full ArticleSouth Asia’s Kashmir predicament
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Though the Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir atops the South Asian region geographically, this troubled valley appears to have become somewhat a proverbial tail of the region which is currently wagging the dog. For over seven decades, India and Pakistan have been at loggerheads over Kashmir, a predominantly Muslim region largely-held by India but exclusively clai
Read Full ArticleHow Modi used Kashmir to stoke nationalist sentiment and woo...
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How Modi used Kashmir to stoke nationalist sentiment and woo India's Hindu voters The government cited unspecified security threats for the twice-weekly ban, but the move is symptomatic of the heavy handed approach Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationa
Read Full ArticleBJP vows to strip Kashmir of special rights
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India’s Hindu nationalist ruling party vowed on Monday to strip decades-old special rights from the people of Jammu and Kashmir, making an election promise that could provoke a backlash in the country’s only Muslim-majority state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)is widely expected to retain power after a general election
Read Full ArticleFive Indian Soldiers killed in Maoist attack
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Nakulnar: 0 9 April 2019 at least five military soldiers including a legislator (Member Legislative Assembly), were killed in Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh today. The members of the outlawed group attacked the BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi’s convoy near Nakulnar in Dantewada district and killed him.Reports sa
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