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Amid continuing humanitarian catastrophe in the Indian-administered Kashmir, a senior State Department official told lawmakers at a hearing on Tuesday that Kashmiris’ voice needs to be heard once political process is restored. Acting Assistant Secretary of...

Pakistan has categorically rejected Indian media reports that Indian troops targeted the so-called terrorist launchpads on the Pakistani side of the Line of Control in Kashmir and instead the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad lambasted India over its...

As Indian repression of the Kashmiris since August 5 revocation of the region’s autonomy entered its third month, Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren joined a growing number of American lawmakers to express concern over continued unprecedented restrictions...

Prime Minister Imran Khan made a strong case for UN intervention on Kashmir as he told the world dangers of a nuclear war and the RSS mindset that drives his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi’s policy of ethnic...

Acclaimed novelist Kamila Shamsie has a question for the jury of Nelly Sachs Prize for literature which this month picked her as the winner of the award and just a fortnight later rescinded it – for...

Joining her Congressional colleagues in condemning India’s continued repression in Jammu and Kashmir, Representative Rashida Tlaib has said the United States should supported a UN-backed resolution to the longstanding conflict in a way that helps that...

Two members of Congress have asked the Trump Administration to send a clear message to India on humanitarian crisis in Kashmir and the imperatives of democracy, as the disputed region remains besieged since New Delhi’s August 5 suspension...

As the Kashmir clampdown continues into the second month, Indian origin advocates have asked the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation not to give an award to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his sanitation and toilet access...

Amnesty International India has launched a global campaign #LetKashmirSpeak asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP government to end the ‘draconian communication blackout” imposed in a strict military clampdown on millions of people in the disputed Kashmir...

Sticking to its criticism of the Indian move to revoke Kashmir’s autonomy, a respected British journal has said residents of the disputed territory facing health hazards under an unprecedented clampdown since August 5, need healing, not...