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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...

News Author: Corporate Communication & Marketing / Korporatiewe Kommunikasie & Bemarking [Alec Basson] Published: 29/01/2021 Drone-enabled surveillance is fast becoming all-pervasive, having moved rapidly from military combat to other areas of law enforcement and migration control. “This raises new challenges for international human rights law and international humanitarian law rights because our civil liberties may be impacted as drones are used to monitor our actions and movements", says international relations expert Dr Raenette Taljaard who recently obtained her doctorate in Political ...

‘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...

Said a moment ago, are all options. the last option, we don't want to ever have to get there, would be to take out those nuclear facilities which would be extremely difficult. extremely difficult to do, and would almost certainly end or lead to a major conventional and possibly nuclear conflict on the korean peninsula and in the neighborhood. >> let's not forget the capital of seoul is 20, 30 mimes south of the demilitarized zone. north korea, north of the dmz, a million trips with thousands of pieces of artillery and mortars, conventional weapons, they're called, clearly could level that sout...

Continues to expand his missile program and his attempt at matching and pairing nuclear weapons to icbms and other types of missiles. >> will, i want to bring you in here. as you know, vice president pence is in south korea today. he is going to be discussing the military response to north korea. what do you think pence's strategy is going to be going into these meetings in south korea with the leaders there? >> one, he needs to reassure south korea that the united states is behind them that the alliance is strong and the 28,000 u.s. troops on the southern side of the korean peninsula will be ...