By Atta Rasool Malik The situation in Indian-administered Kashmir is immensely tense. The beautiful Kashmir Valley is on lockdown, with a complete curfew since August 5. Indian armed forces have started conducting night raids, searching houses and picking up boys (potential stone throwers) since Jammu and Kashmir’s autonomy was stripped two weeks ago. As The

“If I owned a newspaper, my headline tomorrow would just be the word ’20’ because it is the twentieth day that the people of Kashmir have been subjected to these restrictions on their freedoms,” says Kannan Gopinathan. An officer of the Indian Administrative Service from Kerala, Kannan Gopinathan, has resigned from the prestigious service in

A first-person account of life in Srinagar after India imposed curfew and a communications lockdown. By Sasha Bhat The Indian government revoked the special status accorded to Indian-administered Kashmir in its constitution earlier this month. A presidential decree issued on August 5 revoked Article 370 of India’s constitution, which guaranteed special rights to the Muslim-majority

By Afp Soura neighbourhood has sealed itself off from Indian security forces Young men sit beside a pile of rocks and a bonfire, protecting the only entrance to a besieged neighbourhood they call “Kashmir’s Gaza” as a mosque loudspeaker broadcasts slogans of liberation. In an act of defiance against New Delhi’s controversial decision to strip

By Samah Hadid This weekend, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the United Arab Emirates and have the Gulf state’s highest honors bestowed on him. The Order of Zayed, the UAE’s highest civilian honor named for its founder, is in “recognition of the distinguished leadership of Prime Minister Modi for giving a big boost

India fears protest if the communication is restored and troops scaled down in Kashmir Widespread anger over government’s revocation of Kashmir’s special status It is more than two weeks since Indian-held Kashmir began facing curfews. Markets in major parts of the valley and Muslim regions of Jammu were shut, communication networks suspended, and people were

By Sanna Wani On Monday, the Indian government announced that Kashmir’s constitutionally-mandated autonomy would be revoked and political rule imposed from Delhi. This northern territory, claimed by both India and Pakistan and ruled in part by each, had been largely autonomous since it agreed to join India in 1947 as its only Muslim-majority state. Now

As the crisis threatens to escalate in the region, the future of its people is at stake There is a growing clamour of voices and demonstrations around the world, raised in protest at India’s revoking of the semi-autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir. The one voice that is not being heard, however, is that of

With the abrogation of Kashmir’s special status, India, under the leadership of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), has finally taken the plunge. While the party’s hardcore ideologues have triumphed, it is a democracy that has taken a back seat. It’s pertinent to note that no other Indian government had ever contemplated taking such action. While

Reporters in the disputed region face difficulties due to ban on movement and communications blackout. Restrictions on movement and a communications blackout for a third day in Indian-administered Kashmir have frustrated the region’s journalists, who call their struggle since Monday to get information about the disputed region out an “unprecedented” situation. Most English and Urdu language