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Jan 21st, 2020 |
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A female Kashmiri photojournalist describes the challenges and advantages of covering the story of her homeland. by Masrat Zahra The funeral of prominent rebel commander Zakir Musa in Noorpora, a village in south Kashmir’s Tral district I was born and raised in Srinagar’s old town, where I would often watch street clashes play out between
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Tags: journalism in Kashmir, Kashmir, Kashmiri journalists, Kashmiri protesters, photojournalism
Nov 21st, 2019 |
By kashmirv
Pakistan National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri raised the Kashmir issue at the summit. Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vijay Jolly was thrown out of the Asia Pacific Summit, 2019 in Cambodia on Tuesday when he tried to disrupt the speech of Pakistan National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri on Kashmir issue. In a video circulated
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Tags: Asia Pacific Summit, Asia Pacific Summit 2019, Bharatiya Janata Party, Kashmir, Kashmir Issue, Qasim Suri, Vijay Jolly
Sep 25th, 2019 |
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Lawyers go on strike after security forces arrest senior advocates amid unprecedented lockdown imposed on August 5. By Menaka Rao & Anumeha Yadav For nearly a month, Shafia Ganai, a softly-spoken 19-year-old undergraduate student of sociology in northern Kashmir’s Bandipora, has visited the police station every day. “The security forces took my brother Mohsin, a
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Aug 23rd, 2019 |
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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
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Aug 8th, 2019 |
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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
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Aug 8th, 2019 |
By kashmirv
Srinagar residents say they feel robbed by New Delhi’s decision to revoke their Muslim-majority state’s seven-decade-long autonomy A communications blackout and curfew have left Kashmiris in disarray, fearing the Hindu nationalist government’s next move Fahad Shah “You need to stay inside, don’t come out!”The warnings are being bellowed at homes from large speakers mounted on
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Aug 8th, 2019 |
By kashmirv
Author David Ehl The dispute over Kashmir has poisoned relations between India and Pakistan since the two became independent countries in 1947. Here’s an overview of how tensions have grown more dangerous over the past seven decades. Like so many conflicts around the world, the dispute over Kashmir began with independence from a colonial power. In 1947,
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May 14th, 2019 |
By kashmirv
Police said the girl was hospitalised in critical condition on May 8 but her condition has stabilised. Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Indian-administered Kashmir, angered by the alleged rape of a three-year-old girl by a neighbour who lured her to a school bathroom, which escalated into intense clashes between protesters and
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Tags: Baramulla district, Kashmir, Kashmir Valley, pellet shotguns, protest in Kashmir, Sumbal town, tear gas, Thousands protest in Kashmir
Feb 8th, 2019 |
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Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said “Pakistan will accept” the decision of the people of Kashmir through plebiscite. Qureshi was responding to the Sky News journalist Dominic Waghorn in an exclusive interview on World View whether Pakistan had plans to “liberate” Kashmir. Waghorn noted that “there are many in Kashmir who don’t want freedom
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Jan 21st, 2019 |
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Renewed conflict in Kashmir is killing and blinding the young as politicians remain unwilling to find a just resolution to the old dispute. By Malik Sajad Mr. Sajad is a graphic novelist from Kashmir. = Malik Sajad, a writer and visual artist, is the author of the graphic novel, “Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir.”
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