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For decades, the Indian state has suppressed the democratic rights of Kashmiris. Narendra Modi’s hard-right government is taking this pattern of repression to new extremes, with the complicity of Indian intellectuals who seek to toxify the cause of Kashmir.
India-controlled Kashmir is one (...)
Jammu Kashmir Awami Workers Party (JKAWP) calls to raise voices for the safety of political activist, human rights defender Shah Nawaz Ali Sher arrested by the authorities in Pakistani-occupied Jammu Kashmir.
Shah Nawaz Ali Sher has been released and send messages of thanks to all those who (...)
We Kashmiris are with Farmers of Punjab and Haryana in their just struggle against the neoliberal tyranny of this regime. It is not that things are any good for Kashmiri farmers. Just like on all fronts, this regime has ruined both the Agriculture and Farmers in Kashmir.
Apple farmers in (...)
I am not saying that we should not remember the heroics of the 1965 war. But these heroics should not be used as distractions to shy away from starting a serious dialogue about the blunders made during that moment in our history.
Today the Pakistani nation celebrated the 55th annual Defence (...)
The past year under the BJP has helped us in Kashmir to grasp, up close, what an attempt at total political domination looks like.
On August 5, 2019, the Narendra Modi government revoked Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and statehood, dividing it into two union territories. In this series (...)
August 5 is a day of mourning in Kashmir. On this date in 2019, Kashmir’s autonomy was countermanded by the Indian government. To prevent public protests marking the first year of the siege, various areas across Kashmir have been placed under curfew.
Conditions on the ground in Kashmir are (...)
PANDEMICS GENERATE THEIR own vocabularies, and the “novel coronavirus” is no exception. In the United States the vocabulary of COVID-19 of “sheltering-in-place” and “lockdowns” resonates with Cold War era anxieties about nuclear war and more recent fears about gun violence.
In India the (...)
Mapping the occupation in Kashmir.
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Sitting far away in Massachusetts, I spend hours on Google Earth zooming in and out of Kashmir. I type names of Kashmiri places in the search box and watch the globe roll and the pin drop. I zoom in to locate villages and neighborhoods with recently (...)
A chronicle of key political events that undergird the movement for self-determination.
Analysis
Kashmir emerged as an “international dispute” in 1947, but looking at the Kashmir question exclusively from that prism privileges India-Pakistan state-centric perspectives while erasing (...)
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Late last November, after months of being cut off from Kashmir, I managed to get through to an old friend in my hometown in South Kashmir over a rickety landline connection. There was clicking, popping, and static in the line. “These sounds you hear,” my friend said matter-of-factly, “are (...)
The conflict has been a silent killer.
Srinagar: The Kashmir conflict is over three decades old and so is the struggle of Kashmiri women with its consequences for their health and wellbeing.
It is now becoming increasingly clear that stress related to the violence and the protracted (...)
On October 22, 2019, the United States House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on human rights in South Asia with a special focus on Kashmir. Here is the video of Professor Angana P. Chatterji’s expert testimony before the US Congress, along with a cited biographical profile of her (...)
The delegation of Members of European Parliament comprises representatives of far-right wing parties which are known for their Islamophobic and anti-migrant stances.
The MEPs come from parties including the Vox in Spain, the AfD in Germany and the National Rally in France.
Protests broke (...)
From scholars to farmers’ organisations, a number of groups have expressed solidarity after Jammu and Kashmir’s special status was revoked.
New Delhi: The Left and Sikh organisations in Punjab spent three decades at odds with each other over militancy in the state but agree today on one (...)
An interview with Professor Mohamad Junaid on the occupation and lockdown of Kashmir
Following the abrogation of Article 370 and 35a of the Constitution of India, Kashmir has been under a communications lockdown. On August 5, 2019, Amit Shah, the home minister for the Hindu nationalist, (...)
A human chain and rally was organized calling upon to stop attack, repression and massacre on the people of Kashmir by Indian army.
On 9 August 2019 at 11 am in front of Dhaka National Press Club in Bangladesh, calling a upon to put an end to attack, repression and killings of the people of (...)
The irony of India celebrating its 72nd year of national independence as it orchestrates a coup and military lock-down on the occupied territory of Kashmir was apparently lost on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Modi used the occasion of an annual independence day celebration in Delhi to (...)
Progressive Indians must oppose governmental violence against Kashmiris. The powers that would seek to deny the oppressed people of Kashmir the right to freely pursue their goal of collective self-determination must be stopped.
On August 5, 2019, India’s right-wing government, led by Prime (...)
Following the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of India, which aided the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K) special status, many in mainland India are now supporting the Indian government’s unilateral move on the grounds that the decriminalisation of queer sexuality in (...)
From night raids to pick up youth to the consistent deployment of troops, the five signatories of the letter severely came down upon all possible human rights violations by the Centre in the region.
New Delhi: Five human rights experts of the United Nations on Thursday called for India to (...)
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