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India to the UN Security Council: There Will Be No Alliances

August 2, 2020

With five months to go before India takes its elected seat on the Security Council for 2021-2022, the country’s foreign minister says it will stay true to its founding tradition of nonalignment and not take sides with any big power. “Nonalignment was a term of a particular era and geopolitical landscape,” the minister, Subrahmanyam …

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Pakistan to India: ‘There Will Be Bloodshed’

September 27, 2019

by Barbara Crossette

War clouds hovered again when the leaders of India and Pakistan, the South Asian adversaries that have failed over decades to end their perilous standoff over Kashmir, spoke on the same day at the United Nations, Sept. 27. India has been holding its Kashmiri Muslim population in a near-total communications lockdown since Aug. 5, …

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Top UN Rights Experts Call Kashmir Blackout ‘Collective Punishment’

August 25, 2019

by Barbara Crossette

As a communications shutdown is still depriving people in the predominantly Muslim Kashmir Valley contact with the outside world, five eminent international human-rights advocates say that the Indian military chokehold may be obscuring continuing abuses against civilians, nearly three weeks after stripping the region of its political autonomy. Information has been slowly emerging. “The …

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Kashmir May Be an Old Crisis at the UN, but the World Is Now Riveted

August 19, 2019

by Barbara Crossette

A familiar refrain often heard when the burgeoning crisis in Kashmir rises to the top of the news is that this is an old story from long ago; we have moved on. The United Nations is discovering, however, that there is less tolerance for indifference since India’s decrees on Aug. 5-6 to singlehandedly remake …

Asia, Secretary-General, Security Council

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Kashmiri Muslims in Danger as Hindu Politicians Cancel Their Rights

August 9, 2019

by Barbara Crossette

It has always been relatively easy for Indian governments from both the political left and right to keep Kashmir from the eyes of the world. At no time has this been more obvious than now. Landlocked, under the guns of half a million Indian troops and paramilitaries, cut off sporadically from all modern communications …

Asia, Secretary-General, Security Council

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Amid Kashmiri Violence, a Rape-Murder Case of Two Women Goes Unsolved

November 29, 2016

by Gulzar Bhat

SHOPIAN, Kashmir — A strange quiet had fallen over the Eidgah, a sacred space and martyrs’ graveyard. The sadness was overwhelming, but there was also an underlying restlessness. A special prayer meeting had been organized by Shakeel Ahmad Ahanger and hundreds from this small town had gathered to remember two of its daughters, one …

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Kashmir

India to the UN Security Council: There Will Be No Alliances

Pakistan to India: ‘There Will Be Bloodshed’

Top UN Rights Experts Call Kashmir Blackout ‘Collective Punishment’

Kashmir May Be an Old Crisis at the UN, but the World Is Now Riveted

Kashmiri Muslims in Danger as Hindu Politicians Cancel Their Rights

Amid Kashmiri Violence, a Rape-Murder Case of Two Women Goes Unsolved

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