Politicians condemn order,which follows suicide bombing and India-Pakistan airstrikesCivilians in Kashmir contain been banned from using the only highway out of the disputed region for two days each week to allow Indian security personnel to be safely moved in and out.
The order, which local political parties contain compared to the policies implemented by Israel in the Palestinian territories, and followed a suicide bombing on the highway in February that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitaries and triggered the first airstrikes by India and Pakistan on each other in decades. Related: Standoff in Kashmir: ‘Our last hope is that a war will sort this once and for all’ The region in the foothills of the Himalayas has been under dispute since India and Pakistan came into being in 1947. Related: India-Pakistan crisis: a visual guide to the Kashmir tensions Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com