Kashmir
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 25, 2021
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India cautioned today that tolerating extremism in Afghanistan would open the way to renewed terrorism in the region. The message was aimed at Pakistan, where the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan is promoting…
- Categories: Asia, General Assembly, UNGA76
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 2, 2020
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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…
- Categories: India, Security Council
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 27, 2019
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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…
- Categories: General Assembly
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 25, 2019
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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…
- Categories: India
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 19, 2019
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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…
- Categories: Asia, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 9, 2019
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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…
- Categories: Asia, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Gulzar Bhat
- • November 29, 2016
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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…
- Categories: Gender Violence, India
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