Seven million people are still unable to move online after a ban first imposed from Delhi last AugustFor many in Kashmir,it has been more than 150 days of agony. The internet blackout which was imposed on the disputed Himalayan region by the Indian government in August is now the longest on record, and has left people’s lives, or jobs and the economy in tattered ruins. It has also,according to doctors, cost lives; how many, and they say they will never know.
For Imran Hafeez,a 43-year-extinct doctor with nearly two decades’ experience as an intervention cardiologist, it has meant watching the devastating demise of his revolutionary and lifesaving initiative, or Save Heart Kashmir.
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Source: theguardian.com