{"id":68399,"date":"2024-03-07T09:03:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T09:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/modi-to-visit-india-occupied-kashmir-first-time-since-special-status-revoked\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T09:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T09:03:05","slug":"modi-to-visit-india-occupied-kashmir-first-time-since-special-status-revoked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/modi-to-visit-india-occupied-kashmir-first-time-since-special-status-revoked\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi to visit India-occupied Kashmir, first time since special status revoked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to hold a rally in the main city of India-held Kashmir on Thursday, on his first visit since the disputed region\u2019s semi-autonomy was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1498227\">cancelled<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Modi\u2019s government stripped the Muslim-majority disputed territory of its special constitutional status, splitting the former state into two territories directly ruled from New Delhi.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1796946\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The move, widely welcomed across India, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1763985\/revisiting-article-370-why-indias-supreme-court-must-undo-the-modi-govts-move-to-usurp-kashmiris-rights\">angered<\/a> many in the densely militarised territory.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of armed police and paramilitary forces were deployed, and new checkpoints were set up across India-held Kashmir\u2019s main city Srinagar, where the Hindu nationalist leader is scheduled to address a public gathering around midday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVarious development works will also be dedicated to the nation,\u201d Modi said in a <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1765389344058245255\">statement<\/a> on social media platform X ahead of the visit, including programmes \u201cboosting the agro-economy\u201d as well as tourism.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"media  sm:w-full  w-full  media--stretch    media--uneven  media--stretch\"><figcaption class=\"media__caption  \">Screengrab of Indian PM Modi\u2019s tweet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A government statement said Modi will also inaugurate infrastructure around the revered Muslim shrine of Hazratbal.<\/p>\n<p>The visit comes ahead of India\u2019s national elections due by May, the first since the region lost its autonomy. The last local elections in Kashmir were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1153326\">held in 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Modi\u2019s government claims New Delhi\u2019s direct rule of India-held Kashmir brought about a new era of \u201cpeace and development\u201d in the region, but critics and many residents say it heralded a drastic curtailment of civil liberties and press freedom.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1819229\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Security forces on Thursday patrolled the streets, as well as in motorboats along the river that runs through Srinagar.<\/p>\n<p>Most schools in the city are shut for the day, and the authorities have called on government employees to attend the rally.<\/p>\n<p>Omar Abdulla, a former chief minister of occupied Jammu and Kashmir, accused the government of organising buses to bring in crowds to attend the rally, alleging that \u201calmost none\u201d would be attending willingly.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to hold a rally in the main city of India-held Kashmir on Thursday, on his first visit since the disputed region\u2019s semi-autonomy was cancelled in 2019. Modi\u2019s government stripped the Muslim-majority disputed territory of its special constitutional status, splitting the former state into two territories directly ruled from New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/03\/0712010785cc2a5.png?r=120124","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}