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At Security Council Debate, Speakers Call for End to Indiscriminate Use of Improvised Explosive Devices (S/PRST/2021/8) Format Presidential Statement Urges Including Mine Action in Ceasefire, Peace Agreements Expressing deep concern over the high number of civilian casualties caused by landmines, explosive war remnants and improvised explosive devices, the Security Council today reiterated its call on belligerents to “immediately and definitively” end the indiscriminate use of such weapons, as senior Government officials debated ways to rid the world of a pernicious legacy. In a president...

Kashmir Global - News and Research on Kashmir MENUMENU ‘A ghost that haunts’: Living with landmines in Kashmir January 30, 2021 By Hassan A Kashmiri boy with a bicycle walks past a crater caused by a landmine blast, in a photo from December 2004 [File: Reuters] For those living along Kashmir’s Line of Control, landmines destroy lives and livelihoods One night in December 2000, Mohammad Yaqoob says he was selected by the Indian army for patrol duty along the Line of Control (LoC), the border dividing the Indian and Pakistani-administered regions of Kashmir. Twenty years ago it was standa...

‘A ghost that haunts’: Living with landmines in Kashmir Nawal Ali © A Kashmiri boy with a bicycle walks past a crater caused by a landmine blast, in a photo from Decemb... A Kashmiri boy with a bicycle walks past a crater caused by a landmine blast, in a photo from December 2004 [File: Reuters] One night in December 2000, Mohammad Yaqoob says he was selected by the Indian army for patrol duty along the Line of Control (LoC), the border dividing the Indian and Pakistani-administered regions of Kashmir. Twenty years ago locals it was standard but informal practice in part...