Indian occupied Kashmir remains volatile a year after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi revoked the disputed region’s autonomy on August 5 of last year. Ahead of Wednesday’s one-year anniversary, AFP examines the background to the contentious move, the harsh security crackdown and its aftermath, and a deadly June border clash with China. Why is Kashmir such a […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MOREThe scars of last summer remain in Soura, an enclave that became a symbol of occupied Kashmir’s resistance to India’s central government a year ago on Wednesday. Coils of concertina wire, remnants of makeshift road blocks, lie close to the broken tar of roads dug up to keep the security forces of Prime Minister Narendra […]
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Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Monday that all Kashmiris have rejected outright India’s decision to annex occupied Kashmir on August 5 last year, stressing that while New Delhi has been able to suppress Kashmiris’ voices, their “minds remain free”. His remarks came during a visit to the Chirikot sector along the Line of […]
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India’s Interior Minister Amit Shah has been admitted to hospital after catching the coronavirus, he said on Sunday, becoming the most senior politician in the country to test positive for the disease. Shah, a close aide to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, heads a ministry that has been at the forefront of managing the epidemic. India’s […]
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A young Muslim man was brutally attacked by a group of men near Delhi on suspicions of transporting beef, it emerged on Sunday after a video of the incident went viral on social media. According to Times of India, police said that the incident took place on Friday morning in Haryana’s Gurgaon district and one […]
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Indian police raided rural hamlets and made arrests to break up a bootlegging cartel on Sunday after 86 people died from consuming illegally produced alcohol this week in the northwestern state of Punjab, officials said. “We have conducted raids at more than 30 places today and we have detained six more persons,” Dhruman H. Nimbale, […]
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India’s federal fiscal deficit touched a record $88.5 billion in the April-June quarter, 83.2 per cent of the target for the whole of the current fiscal year, reflecting the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on tax collections and as the government front-loaded its spending. The deficit is predicted by private economists to cross 7.5pc of […]
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Nine people have died in India from drinking alcohol-based hand sanitiser after liquor shops in their town were closed due to virus restrictions, police said on Friday. The group lost consciousness after consuming a “high quantity” of hand sanitiser mixed with water or soda, Siddharth Kaushal, police superintendent for Kurichedu town in Andhra Pradesh state […]
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday said it could not ignore the arms build up for India including its purchase of Rafale fighter jets, which could be modified to deliver nuclear weapons. “We have seen reports of recent acquisition of Rafale jets by Indian Air Force. According to some former senior Indian officials and several international publications, […]
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KARACHI: For the families of poor fishermen who are picked up at sea for violating the territorial waters of another country, the wait for the return of their breadwinners is agony itself. Imagine then the pain of a family when they get back a coffin. On Thursday, the family of 35-year-old fisherman Abdul Karim Bhatti […]
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