SRINAGAR: India and Pakistan exchanged 'heavy' cross-border fire on Saturday (Aug 17), after New Delhi's move to strip the restive Kashmir region ...
SRINAGAR: India and Pakistan exchanged"heavy" cross-border fire on Saturday , after New Delhi's move to strip the restive Kashmir region of its autonomy prompted a rare meeting of the UN Security Council.
US President Donald Trump urged the nuclear-armed rivals to come back to the negotiating table, speaking to Khan by phone on the importance of"reducing tensions through bilateral dialogue".India on Saturday meanwhile gradually restored phone lines following an almost two-week communications blackout in its part of Kashmir, imposed hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surprise Aug 5 gambit.
Tens of thousands of extra troops have been deployed in Kashmir - joining 500,000 already there - turning parts of Srinagar into a fortress of roadblocks and barbed wire. "We want peace and nothing else, but they have kept us under this lockdown like sheep while taking decisions about us," resident Tariq Madri told AFP.Delhi cut phone lines and imposed severe restrictions on the movement of people in Kashmir as it feared an angry response after stripping the state of its special status AFP/Tauseef MUSTAFA
The clashes broke out after more than 3,000 people rallied in the city's Soura neighbourhood, which has witnessed regular demonstrations this month.
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