India’s illegal power grab is turning Kashmir into a colony | Mirza Waheed

Narendra Modi’s nationalist takeover runs roughshod over Kashmir’s special status and its people’s rights

I haven’t been able to hear the voices of my parents for more than a week now. We usually talk or exchange messages a few times during the day, mostly about their creeping health issues or about my children’s latest antics here in London. But now, not a peep. It’s because, like all Kashmiris, they’re under siege, experiencing the worst crackdown in three decades, imposed by the Indian government as it revoked the region’s autonomy by abrogating article 370 of the constitution.

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