How India reshaped Kashmir by revoking Article 370
Investigation into bombs origin
Police official Rajesh Sharma claims the sticky bombs arrived in the valley from Pakistan, which rules part of the region across the Line of Control (the India-Pakistan Kashmir border). We are investigating it, he added.
However, the claim that Pakistan-based militants have a role in all of this has not been verified.
Sharma says the bombs were meant to be delivered to The Resistance Front (TRF), a militant organization that emerged after the abrogation of Kashmir s special status. They don t look locally made; they have been manufactured by some arms-producing company, the official said.
Superstition keeps Kashmir s tribal women from accessing birth control
Women in Kashmir s nomadic tribal communities are often married as teenagers and end up having multiple children they can t support, as their husbands forbid access to birth control.
Research has shown that tribal women in Kashmir are more prone to high-risk pregnancies
Rukaiya Jan, a woman from the Gujjar tribal community in Kashmir, was married at 15 years old, a common practice among Kashmir s nomadic herders.
Now 35, Jan has six children. The birth of her seventh baby, a girl, ended in tragedy, as the newborn died near a hospital gate several miles away from her home. Jan was unable to reach the hospital in time.
A woman s perspective of the Kashmir conflict
Decades of dispute
India and Pakistan have been at loggerheads over Kashmir for decades, with intermittent periods of peace. However, in August 2019 tension was renewed after New Delhi withdrew the autonomy of the Himalayan region and split it into federally administered territories.
Most of Muslim-majority Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since they became independent countries in 1947, with its remote eastern extremity controlled by China. Both India and Pakistan claim the region in its entirety.
Insurgents in Kashmir have been fighting Indian rule since 1989, with some estimates suggesting more than 70,000 people have been killed in the armed conflict.
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