{"id":21434,"date":"2020-08-07T02:05:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T17:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/06\/drawing-a-line-under-the-kashmir-conflict"},"modified":"2020-08-07T02:05:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T17:05:39","slug":"drawing-a-line-under-the-kashmir-conflict-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21434","title":{"rendered":"Drawing a line under the Kashmir conflict | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan was the first to remove special status from its part of Kashmir, writes <strong>Om <\/strong><strong>Prakash Shabbi <\/strong>\u2013 and it is time both India and Pakistan accepted the line of control as an international border between the two countries<\/p>\n<p>One factor largely missing from your report on Kashmir (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/05\/our-identity-has-been-robbed-life-in-kashmir-after-a-year-of-crisis\" title=\"\">\u2018Our identity has been robbed\u2019: life in Kashmir after a year of crisis<\/a>, 5 August) is that not just India but both India and Pakistan accorded special status to their respective parts of Kashmir as a result of UN resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan, however, was the first to backtrack: first in 1963 when, under the Sino-Pakistan Agreement, it ceded a large portion of Kashmir\u2019s territory to China, and then in May 2018 when it removed the special status accorded to Gilgit-Baltistan, thereby enabling China to build an economic corridor through the disputed territory (Gilgit-Baltistan) of Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/06\/drawing-a-line-under-the-kashmir-conflict\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan was the first to remove special status from its part of Kashmir, writes Om Prakash Shabbi \u2013 and it is time both India and Pakistan accepted the line of control as an international border between the two countriesOne factor largely missing from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,432,60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kashmir","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21435,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21434\/revisions\/21435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}