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Prime minister speaks in Delhi on 11th day of lockdown in Muslim-majority region
The Indian prime minister has defended his government’s controversial measure to strip the Kashmir region of its statehood and special constitutional provisions, as about 4 million Kashmiris stayed indoors for the 11th day of a security lockdown and communications blackout.
In his Independence Day address live from Delhi’s Mughal-era Red Fort on Thursday, Narendra Modi said Kashmir’s previous status – some political autonomy and a ban on outsiders buying land and taking public sector jobs in the Muslim-majority Himalayan region – had fuelled a movement for separatism and was unjust for Kashmiri women, because the law said they lost their inheritance rights if marrying a person from outside the region. Continue reading...