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India announces easing of brutal curfew over Kashmir
Aug 17, 2019 06:57Officials in the disputed Indian-controlled Kashmir region have started restoring landline phone lines since imposing a brutal curfew and news blackout on the majority-Muslim territory in early August.
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India hints at ending ‘No First Use’ nuclear policy
Aug 17, 2019 02:51India has hinted at the possibility of changing its “No First Use” policy on nuclear weapons, amid escalating tensions with fellow-atomic state Pakistan over the disputed region of Kashmir.
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Pakistan says UNSC meeting shows Kashmir not India’s domestic matter
Aug 17, 2019 01:14Pakistan says holding a meeting by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) “nullifies” that Jammu and Kashmir is a domestic matter for India, which scrapped the autonomy of the Muslim-majority Himalayan region earlier this month.
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Indian armoured vehicles bar Kashmiris from entering mosques for Friday prayers
Aug 16, 2019 09:52People in Kashmir say authorities barred them from entering mosques for Friday prayers as India continues its security clampdown over the Muslim-majority Himalayan region.
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Nigerian Muslim Leader Zakzaky leaves India: Daughter
Aug 16, 2019 09:46Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky has left India after rejecting the Nigerian government's "obstruction" of his medical treatment.
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Sheikh Zakzaky to return home after harassment in India
Aug 15, 2019 22:57Nigerian Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaki and his wife are to return to the country from India, where they had traveled in vain hope of receiving medical treatment for injuries they had received during a brutal crackdown back home.
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Pakistan says five killed by Indian fire in Kashmir flare-up
Aug 15, 2019 22:52Pakistan says “unprovoked firing” by India across the heavily militarized de facto border in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir has killed three soldiers and two civilians in separate incidents.
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Nigeria government, US hampering Sheikh Zakzaky’s treatment in India: IMN
Aug 14, 2019 07:25The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), whose leader Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky has been transferred to India to receive medical care, says the Nigerian and US governments have been trying to hamper the cleric’s treatment.
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Iran making good progress on Chabahar-Zahedan rail link: Minister
Aug 14, 2019 01:22Iran’s minister of roads and urban development says good progress has been made at construction activities for a strategic railway linking the Port of Chabahar on the Sea of Oman to the city of Zahedan near the Iranian-Afghan border.
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‘Pakistan moves military hardware, aircraft to India border’
Aug 13, 2019 11:12Pakistan has reportedly begun moving military hardware to forward bases near the Indian border, raising concerns about a potential military confrontation with India over the disputed Kashmir region.