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India leveraged blackouts to crush farmers protest and Kashmiris, according to digital rights organisation Access Now
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March 05, 2021
India topped the list for the most internet shutdowns in 2020 globally for the third consecutive year, a new report by digital rights and privacy organisation Access Now said.
India leveraged blackouts to crush the nationwide farmer’s protest and the Kashmiris, the report said. It pointed out that India shut down the internet more than any other nation at 109 times out of a total of 155, recorded worldwide. India was followed by Yemen with six instances.
According to a new report by Access Now, a global non-profit that works on digital rights and online freedom, around 70% of cases of internet shutdowns globally happened in India in 2020, with shut down of the internet in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) roughly once every two weeks.
Understanding the ceasefire
March 5, 2021
Amidst the massive national focus on the legal and political events in the run-up to the Senate elections, something of import happened on the Pakistan-India front that has the potential to open up space for a low-level engagement between Islamabad and New Delhi.
The announcement of a ceasefire agreement along the Line of Control (LoC), which was originally signed in 2003, is the first significant step forward in a bilateral relationship that has been on a steep decline ever since Indian Prime Minister Modi swept to power in his second term.
Another way of gauging the importance of this engagement is to juxtapose it in the context of Modi’s unilateral annexation of Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir as well as the post-Pulwama military stand-off that could have spiraled into a full-fledged war with Pakistan.
Operation Swift Retort – Message to India: ‘Don t miscalculate’
Pakistani forces shatter India’s dream of setting ‘new normal’, decimate its ‘conventional superiority’
Wreckage of Indian jet shot down by PAF
KARACHI:
India’s dream of establishing a “new normal” to dominate the region was shattered 12 months ago by Pakistan Air Force jets.
Trying its strategy of “pre-emption” and so-called “surgical strikes”, more recently referred to as the “new normal”, by new army chief Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane, India had to bite the dust when Pakistan shot downed its top-notch jets in a dogfight in its airspace last year.
“On February 27, 2019, we managed to unmask the myth that Indian conventional superiority would be enough to checkmate Pakistan, said a security official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. We have obliterated their assumption of conventional superiority by the jaw-breaking reaction by the PAF, he added.
24 Feb in 18:30 Anadolu Agency
Pakistani officials, academics, and defense analysts have urged the international community to take action against the perpetrators of a 1992 massacre by Armenian forces in Khojaly, Nagorno-Karabakh which left over 600 people dead. Speaking at a seminar on Monday co-organized by Azerbaijan’s Embassy in Islamabad and the Islamabad Institute of Conflict Resolution, parliamentarian Shehryar Khan Afridi said that repeated massacres and genocides show how the world has failed to protect oppressed people living in conflict zones, as the brutal principle of “might makes right” prevails, Mass rapes of women in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir and Khojaly, Nagorno-Karabakh have been used by occupation forces as tools of genocide, said Afridi, who also heads the Pakistani parliament’s Committee on Kashmir, a region disputed between Pakistan and India. He added that Indian forces are also waging a “rape war” to advance their “genocide” of