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India intensifies restrictions on Indian Kashmir after Friday clashes
Aug 24, 2019 11:57Some three weeks after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi controversially stripped Indian-controlled Kashmir of its autonomous status, the Muslim-majority region’s main city of Srinagar looks like a ghost town scarred with military barricades, barely breathing under a massive lockdown.
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Genocide Watch issues emergency genocide alert in Kashmir
Aug 23, 2019 03:05The curfew in the entire Indian Jammu and Kashmir is nearing to its third week. India laid down the siege on Kashmir after New Delhi scrapped the autonomy of the UN declared disputed region earlier this month. Fearing a violent public reaction, India enforced a curfew in its part of this Muslim majority region which is divided between Pakistan and India.
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UN rights experts urge India to end 'collective punishment' in Kashmir
Aug 23, 2019 03:01Five United Nations human rights experts have issued an urgent demand to India to lift the communication blackout it has imposed on the disputed Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir, saying that it amounts to "collective punishment" and worsens the ongoing tensions.
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Trump talks to India, Pakistan PMs, urges de-escalation
Aug 20, 2019 04:02In separate phone calls, US President Donald Trump has urged the prime ministers of India and Pakistan to reduce tensions over the disputed Kashmir region.
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India, Pakistan exchange heavy cross-border fire in Kashmir
Aug 17, 2019 12:06India and Pakistan have exchanged "heavy" fire across the militarized de facto border in disputed Kashmir valley, days after New Delhi’s decision to scrap the autonomy of the Muslim-majority Himalayan region.
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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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Explosion in Pakistan mosque kills 4 people
Aug 16, 2019 09:56At least four people have been killed in an explosion that rocked a mosque near Quetta, the provincial capital of Pakistan’s restive Province of Balochistan.
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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.