Kashmir
India seeks to portray sense of calm in locked-down Kashmir
By Emily Schmall — August 29, 2019
NEW DELHI (AP) — By limiting the ability of journalists to report on the region, critics of the Indian prime minister say, India's government has whitewashed coverage of resistance to the new policy of direct rule in Kashmir.
India ends Kashmir’s separation, giving hope to Hindus looking homeward
By Rajiv Pandit — August 26, 2019
(RNS) — In the 1990s, thousands of Pandit homes, businesses and temples were destroyed or occupied, and 350,000 Pandits fled in a mass exodus. So, when earlier this month the Indian government finally abrogated Articles 370 and 35A ... my family celebrated.
Modi clamps down on Kashmir, and India loves him for it
By Tim Sullivan — August 15, 2019
(AP) — To his critics, Modi is an authoritarian who wants to turn India into a Hindu nation. To supporters, he is an incorruptible ascetic unafraid to tell the truth.
Kashmiri Americans organize to put a human face to the crisis in their homeland
By Aysha Khan — August 13, 2019
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (RNS) – As Kashmir faces a security lockdown and widespread media blackout, U.S. Kashmiris are kicking up a new wave of activism focused on 'azaadi.'
Troops let Muslims go to mosques in locked-down Kashmir
By Aijaz Hussain — August 12, 2019
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Muslims walked to local mosques for the Eid al-Adha festival during an unprecedented security lockdown in the disputed region that has gone on for eight straight days.
India to bring supplies to Kashmir; Pakistan to go to UN
By Sheikh Saaliq — August 10, 2019
NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities enforcing a strict curfew in Indian-administered Kashmir will bring in trucks of essential supplies for an Islamic festival next week, as the divided Himalayan region remained in a lockdown Saturday
Curfew eased partially in Kashmir for Friday prayers
By Associated Press — August 9, 2019
NEW DELHI (AP) — The mostly Muslim region has been under a security lockdown since India's Hindu nationalist-led government announced it was revoking its special constitutional status.
In Kashmir’s war-torn landscape, imams take up the environmental cause
By Priyadarshini Sen — July 8, 2019
SRINAGAR, India (RNS) — After years of conflict that have harmed the Kashmir Valley’s natural beauty, locals here have more faith in religious leaders to protect their heritage than they do the government.
Hindu pilgrimage begins amid high security in Indian Kashmir
By Associated Press — July 1, 2019
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Thousands of Hindu pilgrims began the arduous trek to an icy Himalayan cave in disputed Kashmir on Monday, with tens of thousands of Indian government forces guarding roads and mountain passes.
At least 6 Hindu pilgrims killed in militant attack in Indian Kashmir
By Fayaz Bukhari — July 10, 2017
(Reuters) — The attack is likely to raise the ire of hard-line Hindu groups tied to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party who have long sought tough action against militants fighting Indian rule in Muslim-majority Kashmir.
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