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India's Kashmir move draws flak from China and Pakistan
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 06 - 08 - 2019

India's plan to change the status of Kashmir ran into fierce opposition from China and its ally Pakistan on Tuesday as the disputed territory lay under a telecoms blackout to forestall protests for a second day.
In a move to tighten its grip on Jammu and Kashmir, parts of which are claimed by Pakistan and China, India dropped a constitutional provision that allowed the country's only Muslim-majority state to make its own laws.
The changes imposed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu militant-led government are the most sweeping in the nearly 30 years that India has been battling a revolt in Kashmir. The government also broke up the state into two federally administered territories.
China said it opposed India's decision to revoke Kashmir's special status and that New Delhi needed to be cautious on border issues.
"India's action is unacceptable and would not have any legal effect," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement, drawing an immediate rebuke from Delhi that Kashmir was an internal affair.
The Himalayan region is divided between India, which rules the populous Kashmir Valley and the Hindu-dominated region around Jammu city, Pakistan, which controls a wedge of territory in the west, and China, which holds a thinly populated high-altitude area in the north.
Indian foreign ministry spokesman Raveesh Kumar said splitting Jammu and Kashmir into federal territories was a domestic issue. "India does not comment on the internal affairs of other countries and similarly expects other countries to do likewise."
Thousands of paramilitary troops have been deployed in Kashmir and phone and internet services have been suspended, prompting criticism the government is trying to stifle all dissent.
Video images by Reuters partner ANI showed deserted streets on Tuesday in Srinagar, the main city of the region at the heart of the decades-long armed revolt which India accuses Pakistan of helping. Islamabad says it gives only moral and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri people in their struggle for self-determination.
After a meeting with top commanders in the city of Rawalpindi, Pakistan's army chief expressed support for the people of Kashmir, and the prime minister said he was weighing an approach to the United Nations Security Council.
"The Pakistan Army firmly stands by the Kashmiris in their just struggle to the very end," said Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa. "We are prepared and shall go to any extent to fulfill our obligations in this regard."
"We will fight it (Modi's policy) at every forum. We're thinking how we can take it to International Court (of Justice) ... to the United Nations Security Council," Prime Minister Imran Khan told Pakistan's parliament.
Armed police patrolled every few hundred meters in Srinagar, where a ban on public gatherings of more than four people stayed in force. Educational institutions and most shops in residential neighborhoods were shut.
Some shopkeepers said stocks were running out after days of panic-buying.
"No provisions are left in my shop, and no fresh supplies are coming," said grocery store owner Jehangir Ahmad.
At a Srinagar hospital hit by the crackdown on telephone, television and internet communications, staff were working overtime, with ambulances sent to bring in doctors and nurses.
"We are managing for now," said a senior official at the 500-bed Lal Ded hospital who sought anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to media.
In Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-governed Kashmir, protests entered a second day, with hundreds of people, including children, shouting anti-India slogans.
Many Kashmiris have relatives on both sides of the border, but those on the Pakistani side say they have been unable to reach people in India for days.
Tanveer-ul-Islam, who migrated to Muzaffarabad in 1990, said he had lost touch with his mother in Indian Kashmir since Sunday.
"You can't even imagine my pain," he added. "We do not know about the well-being of anyone across the divide." — Reuters


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