Month: December 2019

Beijing is pushing for yet another discussion on Jammu & Kashmir in the UN Security Council on Tuesday, just days before India and China are scheduled to hold the latest round of boundary talks and amid protests over anti-citizenship act.

Indian authorities should immediately release detained Kashmiris who have not been charged with a recognizable offense. Several thousand Kashmiris, including politicians and opposition activists, have been held in preventive detention since August 5, 2019, when the Indian Parliament voted to alter the autonomous constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir state and split it into two federally governed territories.

At the United Nations, Pakistan has warned that India’s unilateral annexation of occupied Kashmir, imposition of military-enforced curfew in the disputed state and mass arrests of Kashmiris, besides hostile actions against Indian Muslims could propel South Asia towards a catastrophe.

RIYADH: Four months after Delhi stripped autonomy from Indian-administered Kashmir, the region is paralyzed politically and economically, with communication channels closed and independent observers shut out.

A German court has sentenced an Indian couple after they admitted to spying on Kashmiri and Sikh groups for the Indian foreign intelligence service.

The former Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the erstwhile Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir was very busy in September and October. Authorised to take decisions on approval of infrastructure and other projects passing through forested land, the FAC has approved diversion of over 727 hectares of designated forest land between September 18 and October 21.

For years, Romi Jan’s mornings would begin with the plaintive call to prayer that rang out from the central mosque in disputed Kashmir’s largest city. The voice soothed her soul and made her feel closer to God.

Yesterday, I introduced a bipartisan House Resolution with @Rep_Watkins to urge the Indian government to end restrictions on communications

World cannot ignore the massive HR violations by the Occupied Indian Forces in Indian Occupied Kashmir