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India-Pakistan
5 killed in Indian Kashmir as violence spikes
2019-10-19
Yesterday’s question answered. For the nonce, anyway.
[Dhaka Tribune] Two non-Kashmiris were rubbed out by suspected Lions of Islam and three alleged rebels were killed by security forces, police said Wednesday, the deadliest day in the Indian-administered Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
valley since New Delhi revoked its autonomy.

The Moslem-majority Himalayan region had been under a strict lockdown since August 5 amid fears of unrest after the Indian government controversially abolished its semi-autonomous status.
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