When the newly released Dr Farooq Abdullah wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking restoration of 4G network in Kashmir in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, many Kashmiris were furious
It remains to be seen if Bukhari and his team are able to create a space for an alternative political narrative in Kashmir, a job they have apparently taken upon themselves to accomplish.
The erratic access to Internet is wreaking havoc with every sector of economy dependent on internet besides proving detrimental to the education
Considering so few ministers came to Kashmir as against Jammu, the outreach wasn’t focussed on the Valley. J&K observers think that the barrage of ministerial visits was basically meant for Jammu
As the PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti continues to be detained following New Delhi’s withdrawal of Article 370, her party is fast falling apart with many of its leaders leaving it
It seems unlikely that the centre will rethink the arrest of the separatist leaders in near term. That is, unless the union government is certain that releasing them wouldn’t adversely impact the existing normalcy in the UT
When a right is violated, the remedy has to be the restoration of the right.
The problem is that polls are not a simple democratic exercise in Valley. They have a meaning and a dimension that goes beyond the government formation
There is now a chorus building up for the government to at least start broadband services which has a smaller penetration. As for as the internet is concerned, least that the government can do is to initially restore the broadband connections
Protests against the scrapping of the state’s autonomy by the Narendra Modi government have been muted in Kashmir
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