Nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take a back seat will the president ial candidates ever hit the road and sell very brand of politics to americans before the fall follow the u. S. Election on a jazeera. I am fairly ok you are watching history who have plastic that im always happy to do which is when you suggest an idea for osteen discounts have a look on my laptop this is something that we or when it is a story issue you think that we should cover it we just scroll down here and then you will see that the response which was about the pandemic the administrative apathy that is an all time high and were talking here about indian administered kashmir now some are saying that because of security a lockdown such a t. Restrictions about movement and then you add on cohen a virus locked down the internet minister kashmir has a double down or your thoughts about that do you have questions for apatow if youre new to chat you can put your comments in the having he could be part of this discussion let me introduce you to the guests so that they can introduce themselves to you helen tonight good to happy tell everybody. Thank you my name is do not do the mayor of green ever do you know in. The Summer Capital of europe when we are we are theyve now unions have we were too capital and 3 never you know. Has been dealing with people with like all of this disease and weve tried to enter ways. That we must move at lot to contend with math thank you for being on the stream today and welcome back to the strange remind everybody here. Im on of the scene and im executive editor times which is the oldest english daily in. Welcome to the stream good to have you and safa its nice to have a thank you so much so much for joining us would you introduce yourselves to our International Audience thank you but it might never see it as if it is. I love what it would have called by here that there of the Political Parties did at the party with their little political party. And their nastiness whats with them but what political or Economy Affairs thank you very much for joining us so if we start here on my laptop tribune is the headline in kashmir us 408 tests positive for the coronavirus so that was a headline it was very beginning of the week is standard panic of a citizens of j. And k. Are they worried are they scared about the current virus. Well there is you know there is a semblance of a panic i still wouldnt think that you know. People are running helter skelter. But you know i brought this up in a meeting yesterday that one of the issues that were facing is based information on social media and that you know as it is what happens in crises like this is that sometimes you know. Credible information. That might have given rise to some early signs of panic. But it seems like were trying to do our best i think the administration apart from the local government and screen is trying to do its best unprecedented in the talent is unprecedented. And you know there are no easy answers. But then obviously in a place Like Community you deal on a purposeful basis with conspiracy theories and. You know probably some starter for baseline cynicism or skepticism with which makes it a little tough and tuitions like these. Because communication is key and trying to you know make people understand that whatever is being done in the covert context is being done in best faith that becomes a little kind of unique in a place like a spear but i still dont think there is panic but ive been saying this from day one stream it was the 1st city in the country to go for a lock down the street as a minister in cooperation calling special session of the General Council i summoned it and i proposed that we should shut down our schools and Public Places and offices and market free markets so we want to 1st cities and i remember saying it then and i will state now that while panic is not advisable in a situation like this callousness and you know nontheism approach. Is far more dangerous than panic. So for the description of what is happening in indian administered calf it sees me kashmir is a double down a security lockdown and a coronavirus knocked down how would you respond to that do you see that white. Well. We do our talking what they looked on you wouldnt go to another i think actually is not of the exception that one is witnessing this kind of. Love done so is it in the us place question and if you just compared it to the situation what we have in bush created with the rest of the country i think that look at it is much bit off than some of the parts of the country and also if youre going to bed it down with the rest of the world in as many british wasnt much better positioned than that of many other countries in the in the work even if the above quote that you are a man are serious i think the problem in america so much is steeper compared to what we have in india but thats what has a. Little lock down a little lock on lots of well this sort of 1st. Family up difficult there are longer must ensure there is no. Explorer cant get there because. Of the free. Will had passed legislation and i lament that the internet did it to be in there and there and being anticipated that there could be some. Some mishap there and sometimes incident of fighting or something or other people may come out on the street or something slow to ensure that it doesnt happen and normal. Late last year and then with christmas we had some measures exactly that was primarily brought in short lock down debt and that has stuck because nobody has lost labor and everything is back to normal people are living a comfortable life but better than what they can struggle in the past and people had by not great have been specially in the bigger than where we are talking about to demonstrate it and talk about it when youre talking about there that need to. Be put in really well and have been finalised because that the only the Political Parties and ever present it were in a very comfortable so on and very comfortable situation and something and it all was it shouldnt stand but now situationist and everybody is feeling well there and theyre only hearing this so i just wanted shockingly on the right and right he if you think back to no more sapphire just yet. I think he should come here. With it. Talk to the people be ordinary people and not just. A universe true with the meetings with officials in orland and get a feedback which is very different. Because if you ask the people theres been never any normalcy. Economy is in shambles. For the last 10 months the internet is not working it is hampering every release if you are of life whether its business it is Education HillHealth Care People socializing the communication. The restrictions the sense of restrictions and feel and the news in some places that there are more distractions in other places your new still see. The wires lying on the roads even in a place like demo right now and based there and even on some of the roads youll still see barbed wire just pushed to the side of us and that these. Relaxations are not quite temporary. You know they did they can come back in place any time. Theyre the restrictions on the internet have been eased a little but full access has not been given so the last month we had about 2 or 2 big gunfight major gunfight and all of internet in the valley in kashmir rarely was again freeze and even why schools in on mobile phones were barred so this is the kind of situation and specially when you have i mean even earlier it was very difficult for people to cope up in a situation like that the world hasnt seen before its very important to be informed. For ordinary people for doctors. You know the sharing of research sharing of information is very very vital it is very difficult for even Media Persons to collect information to disseminate information and feel i think it impacts every facet of life. Let me just go to you tube right now very busy. And thank you for being part of our show we may survive the cove at 19 but we will not survive the lockdown thats being forced on the 19th by the military machinery in kashmir a man takes one. Well i dont want to discredit anyones political views or relations to democracy but to. The effort. Of the lock down in view of. Being politically motivated or being militarily implemented is grossly unfair. To me as as a civilian representative of the people of st a good who has his own share of differences with the ruling government you know im somebody who survived a vote of no confidence. In the post 5th of august an audio brought in by the b. B. C. So i wont hold my punches when where where where political differences are concerned but for someone to suggest that the covert log abound as some thought of a military aggression is highly you know its a gross distortion of the reality on the ground a lot of Administrative Offices a lot of nongovernmental organizations a lot of Civil Society groups have been out working as have been working together in 3 naga trying to deal with this pandemic so i completely agree and i disagree with dot com and i respect the use it was said it but there is no military aggression in enforcing along down to prevent the spread of. You know very dangerous a very and to then to try and make. You know that gentleman of that individual has a right to have his or her political views but to somehow suggest that the lockdown has some sort of the military motivation out of political motivation. Is highly distorted and that is not true at all. How much help is coming from the gallery in terms of security in terms of help in terms of test extent just funding to help in the indian administered kashmir. Coronavirus right now. The question was to me yes. Well as far as the government concern we are treating every. Stead and then in debt it is equally and when a word of help is needed we are providing all the support needs dont lend kashmir any other leg up water for that matter any other state so whether we are giving a special typical one particular stared at it but even when kashmir that is absolutely a fact that we have the only honorable Prime Minister is in shortage and it under a law minister ensuring that evidence in the facilities or support should be should be given good demonstrated as is due that is needed by them but having said that never daniel fielding which is very important i think that that is something because people of that part of the order should not and what has been a tender matter so much was also people should know that there are so many people what i dont necessarily spreading rumors which is i mean from reality the guardian it is very different than what people are talking bar and but it will if i can stand in that like a stand as a journalist i dont necessarily use english with the sort of their own agenda and sort of it does have that on purpose of having said that under detention of the government of the what the government is doing sure that it did it man of the state dont demagogue spirit should feel that the part of a big vision india a leg and i was cutting down some laughter if i can i just focus on some of the on a rather broad out which is about the restrictions on the internet actually not helping with fighting coronavirus because theres so much that you need i think if you have to stay at home so what access do you need in terms of banking or taking medicine information government information and also connecting with people that you cant see that is incredibly important and you need to tell you that so estatic not. Be causing another problem for the people who are living there if they only have 2 g. If theyre lucky. Let me add its underfed this this if you as well as the Internet Connection is dead it is very like death sometime for security it isnt yes there then google groups some issues because it is this going to do it for them but if you are live and better than operation regularly go deal with dentist and then from there dont have connection then this is the live in doctor we are talking about a Service Provider where they have a direct connection to Service Provided but that broadband thats left is all going to have to look at and get elected good at home program and this is if you really have a little and it wasnt time or some really so it isnt fair presented all the time Death Threats facing this problem sometimes id like grin especially when theyre there live and a bit better triode is. There for us as to a bit of it there are terrorists and that aim for a secure to do it isnt a good discouragement dear sarah says temporarily but never from there i think its by notice that we did. So this is not a manasseh but thank you for being all new she says to live here is very difficult even to others cantin ranch in the us of the builders of the nation but unfortunately our lease is getting destroyed on a rather we still moves like how hopeful are people having already gone through months of security restrictions coming out of corona virus which hasnt even peaked yet how people feel me. When theres been an extended lockdown it particularly in kashmir rarely but in britain generally if you just raise that question earlier of whether there is a militarized or a political politicized focus do the forward related lock down and i would partially agree with that. You know certain restrictions were required the thing is that ever in a one week after the lockdown you bring out a notification changing rules and laws in downwind which which would have waited there was no pressing emergency to bring in door messiah laws and this is something that particularly. You know if it walks anxieties off the youth who are likely to lose their jobs to people from outside who will be able to get domicile status as it is you know that. Already that were already in process was stuck in there and im just going to ask you for a moment if youre going to domicile status and then maybe people internationally trying to work out what does that mean and up until last year there was a protection for who could live in india to administer kashmir and you have to be kashmiri now this is opening up to more people from india can then move into kashmir with certain restrictions this is something that means a society back brought up to us he is Kashmiri Scola and hes very upset about the way the population of kashmir may well change this is what he told us earlier. Though and i have to buy land under secure employment in kashmir which is not allowed under the existing laws fire last year of already 25 percent of bush. Population between the ages of 18 to 29 are unemployed the mere hooves are said to increase the levels of unemployment already over 20000 hectares of land in the illegal occupation of the nominee and the new government is engaging in deforestation to set up new industries and me who are the new domiciles this unplanned influx of inuit internationally is going to have an impact on the ecology as well as the livelihood of the people of kashmir this is the forcible dont have a change in my lesion of all established international law. I have to say that she does a lot of negative sentiment about feeling that kashmiris and nor its being represented well at this time and even in this conversation have you concerns that the way that the domicile our lot opening up who can live in a come to work in internet mr kashmir will change that well 1st of all if we are with or rather there was absolutely no pressing need to bring about the dome i lost. You know. The individual leave me other than. Be strongly opposed. And weve also said that you know. And laws like the dome of high law notifications that have been kind of. You know stood in the midst of the fundament. Have have have created a sense of things i think without any. Shred of doubt there is a few people denying that the 2 occupy a Public Office in an institution of governance or administration in a place like this need is hard stuff there are no easy on. There is a political divide there are aspirational. And i will never claimed to represent every state of beginning i know there are states of being in different than mine but i will talk about my opinions and my views i believe that the domus i lost certainly the timing of the dome of high law it was d was was in bad taste when people long gone in their homes and already in a state of you know and to some certainty and everybody i think the widespread consensus is that this build me every effort made at an illustrated legislative level 2 states got the demography demographics of. Jammu and kashmir. And as i said negativity is something that you live with on a day to day basis in a conflict zone if you are easier for me to be a commentator than be a man in a state like democracy but somebodys got to do you know you know i think he will do i keel diplomacy i i he you diplomacy online he keep ignoring you im hearing this morning i also want to bring into the conversation which is the meeting we know about what is happening in egypt mr cashel is because jonathan telling those stories we spoke to 2 was done he told us what that experience was like trying to get the story out and trying to make sure it was accurate. As log on was in force across india i think pretty cool were going to team actually flick going to find it a lot goes every journalist quite close to me to perform a professional duties. Because of printing it was in the nature of down thinking because of. Fiction and on the moment during this era and continues to despise intimidation that dab industry really high Speed Internet continues to be restricted credit down to one now is so full getting for all including journalist professionals and every other sector this ban should be lifted and come down by an individual old. Saw. Just there this is her photojournalism reminding us that. Is an area that theres a conflict that is still going on this picture she took just a couple of weeks ago let me come back and are added to the reason why we started this conversation which is because of the corona virus impacting kashmir what is the situation in terms of people or new cases and how you are coping. You know the problem is even if the government is making whatever effort one there is not transparency which is all of all were india across india. The government is unable to give any figures of what exactly it is doing how many will with it have been tricky or what is the procurement process how much funds have been generated by the pm cares fun and where does the money going so all these things are not being told to the public across the country the deficit between the public and the government is increasing and this of course we are in when it comes to kish me theres oil drilling and existing trust deficit so that has added to it coupled with that the newer actions which you know make which are creating these ideas and feelings among the minds of people with respect to losing their jobs and their land and a possible demographic change. There that is a feeling that the government does using the lockdown for the turn its control here that kind of thing that was fear where there is normally just yes yes yes i live level of violence is also going on at the same time weve seen some gun fights weve seen militants continuing that action and weve seen out of the insurgency operations which in some ways of course they have to have counterinsurgency operations but there are certain standard operating procedures. I think have gone a step further than that in a few minutes undoubtedly i just saw and heard it so neatly ari its very telling that when i asked you how you were doing in terms of the krona virus you tell me about politics that some jobs indian administered kashmir on a man south on you tube audience thank you so much for playing in the street really appreciate your time today take everything. They say to really know someone you must walk a mile in the. Follow in their footsteps. They forge their way in the. 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