Month: November 2019

London LLF 2019 – Curtains Up Kashmir
In August, the 72-year-old Kashmir crisis drew global attention again.The clarion works of Kashmiri writers Mirza Waheed and Basharat Peer present the real, human stories behind the saffron curtain.

Please read my written testimony on abrogation & human rights crisis in #Kashmir, submitted to Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission US Congressional Hearing on Conflict in Kashmir, Nov. 14.

Before the Swedish Royal couple is due to begin its week-long journey to India, Stockholm has issued a strongly worded statement demanding New Delhi to lift all restrictions placed on the Kashmiri people, and allow them a say in the resolution of the longstanding conflict.

At a private meeting with Kashmiri Hindus in New York, India’s Consul General said he wants to see an “Israeli model” implemented in Kashmir.

Since the number of pellet-blinds has gone up, such advertisements attract a number of patients. Private hospitals in the Valley also use radio, newspapers and hoardings to attract pellet victims.

Malaysian Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Wira Haji Marzuki bin Haji Yahya called on Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Islamabad on Friday and discussed bilateral relations and matters of mutual interests.

Around 4 pm on November 20, the shops around Lal Chowk suddenly snapped shut.

It was not clear what had happened. At the stationer’s on Polo View Road, the shopkeeper said unknown men had ransacked a store on Hari Singh High Street.

On the 115th day since the abrogation of certain provisions in Article 370 and changing the status of Kashmir, Sweden has come out strongly against the continued restrictions and political detentions in the Valley.

The Indian government’s abusive tactics and violations of basic human rights have “increased support and recruits” for militant groups in held Kashmir, argues a US-based advocacy group.