India’s Ministry of External Affairs summoned South Korea’s Ambassador to New Delhi to express its displeasure over a tweet by Hyundai Pakistan, which reportedly expresses support for Kashmir Solidarity Day (CNN Business).
Writer Arrested in India-Administered Kashmir
Fahad Shah, a proofreader of The Kashmir Walls, was captured in India-directed Kashmir only days after his site covered a lethal police attack; the Committee to Protect Journalists required his quick delivery (New York Times).
Indian Forces Kill Five Militants in Kashmir
Indian forces killed five militants, including a top Jaish-e-Mohammed commander, in two separate operations in Kashmir; the Pakistani foreign ministry condemned India’s actions (Reuters).
Indian Security Forces Accused of Killing Civilians in Kashmir
The gatherings of a couple of men killed by police in India-coordinated Kashmir said the men were guiltless normal individuals. The police have said they were zeroing in on theorized rebels (Al Razer).
Recent Developments
With continued violence in Kashmir and a heightened threat of terrorist activity by Pakistan-based militant groups, tensions and concerns over a serious military confrontation between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan remain high. In August 2019, following a deployment of tens of thousands of additional troops and paramilitary forces to the region, the Indian government moved to revoke Article 370 of the Indian constitution, removing the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. India-administered Kashmir remains under lockdown, with internet and phone services intermittently cutoff and thousands of people detained.
In February 2019, an attack on a convoy of Indian paramilitary forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed at least forty soldiers. The attack, claimed by Pakistani militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad, was the deadliest attack in Kashmir in three decades. Two weeks later, India claimed to have conducted air strikes targeting a terrorist training camp inside Pakistani territory. Pakistan retaliated a day later with air strikes in Indian-administered Kashmir. The exchange escalated into an aerial engagement, during which Pakistan shot down two Indian military aircraft and captured an Indian pilot; the pilot was released two days later.
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Regional disagreements about the Kashmir district started two of the three significant Indo-Pakistani conflicts in 1947 and 1965, and a restricted conflict in 1999. Albeit the two nations have kept a delicate truce beginning around 2003, they routinely trade fire across the challenging line, known as the Line of Control. The two sides blame the other for abusing the truce and profess to shoot in light of assaults. An increase in line engagements that started in late 2016 and gone on into 2018 killed handfuls and dislodged a great many regular folks on the two sides of the Line of Control.
In 2014, after India's then, at that point, recently chose Prime Minister Modi welcomed then Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to go to his introduction, there were trusts that Modi's administration would seek after significant harmony arrangements with Pakistan. Be that as it may, after a concise time of hopefulness, relations went bad again when India dropped converses with Pakistan's unfamiliar pastor in August 2014 after the Pakistani high magistrate in India met with Kashmiri nonconformist pioneers. A progression of openings went on all through 2015, including an unscheduled December meeting uninvolved of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris. This prompted a gathering between public safety consultants in Bangkok a couple of days after the fact, where the Kashmir question was talked about. Later in December, Prime Minister Modi made an unexpected visit to Lahore to meet with Prime Minister Sharif, the principal visit of an Indian chief to Pakistan in over 10 years.
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