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Islamabad Protests Soldier’s Death in Kashmir
Islamabad Protests Soldier’s Death in Kashmir
In statement, Pakistan’s Foreign Office calls on India to restrain its security forces.
Pakistan on Friday said it has lodged a protest through diplomatic channels with India over the killing of a soldier in the disputed Kashmir region.
The military on Thursday said the soldier had died in fresh firing from Indian troops along the area’s de facto border in the evening.
“Condemning the incident, Pakistan called upon India to restrain its security forces from unprovoked firing and shelling across the Line of Control and the working boundary,” Pakistan’s Foreign Office said in a statement.
Hizb Chief s Sons, Jamaat-e-Islami Member s Daughter Among 11 Sacked by J&K Admin
Many have alleged that the J&K LG s dismissal order, branding the employees s activities secessionist and subversive came without a fair probe.
Lt Gov Manoj Sinha at an event in Srinagar on July 5, 2021. Photo: PTI/Handout
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Srinagar: A teacher is among 11 employees who have been sacked by the J&Kâs Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha without what many are alleging is a fair investigation.
The dismissal of Razia Akhtar, whose father Mohammad Sultan, a member of Jamaat-e-Islami, was reportedly killed by Ikhwanis, the dreaded militiamen who unleashed terror on locals during the heydays of the insurgency, was approved by the LG this month.
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Through much of 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government claimed the actions it took in the aftermath of its controversially, legally questionable effort to strip Jammu and Kashmir of autonomy were motivated by security concerns.
Yet anyone observing could tell that the suspension of civil liberties and jailing of mainstream political leaders – including the former chief minister who had been in an alliance with Modi’s own Bharatiya Janata Party just months before – was part of a political project. The Indian government did not want to permit the Kashmiri public to express opinions about the reading down of Ar
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