{"id":68439,"date":"2024-03-07T12:04:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T12:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/modi-visits-indian-occupied-kashmir-for-first-time-since-special-status-revoked\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T12:04:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T12:04:05","slug":"modi-visits-indian-occupied-kashmir-for-first-time-since-special-status-revoked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/modi-visits-indian-occupied-kashmir-for-first-time-since-special-status-revoked\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi visits Indian-occupied Kashmir for first time since special status revoked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he was working to \u201cwin hearts in [occupied] Kashmir\u201d, on his first visit to the disputed region\u2019s main city since its 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 territory of its special constitutional status nearly five years ago, splitting the former state into two territories directly ruled from New Delhi.<\/p>\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<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>\u201cI am working hard to win your hearts, and my attempt to keep winning your hearts will continue,\u201d the Hindu nationalist leader said at a public rally in Srinagar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Occupied] Jammu and Kashmir is not just a region, it is the crown of the country,\u201d Modi said at the rally in a stadium attended by thousands.<\/p>\n<p>Modi took pride in having cancelled the region\u2019s constitutional special status and inherited protections of land and jobs for its permanent residents.<\/p>\n<p>He said the former rules and \u201cdynastic politics\u201d had limited the region\u2019s potential.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"heavy-security\" href=\"#heavy-security\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>Heavy security<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cToday, from [occupied] Kashmir I extend my greeting for the coming Ramazan to the entire country,\u201d Modi said, ahead of the holy month, expected to begin in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of armed police and paramilitary forces were deployed, and checkpoints set up across Srinagar.<\/p>\n<p>Modi also remotely inaugurated a slew of development projects and government schemes for boosting agro-economy and tourism in Indian-occupied Kashmir and other parts of India.<\/p>\n<p>The projects included new infrastructure around the revered Muslim shrine of Hazratbal in the city.<\/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 Indian-occupied Kashmir were held in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Modi\u2019s government claims New Delhi\u2019s direct rule of Indian-occupied Kashmir brought about a new era of \u201cpeace and development\u201d, 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 were shut for the day, and the authorities had called on government employees to attend the rally.<\/p>\n<p>Omar Abdullah, a former chief minister of Indian-occupied Kashmir, accused the government of organising buses to bring in crowds, alleging that \u201calmost none\u201d would be attending willingly.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he was working to \u201cwin hearts in [occupied] Kashmir\u201d, on his first visit to the disputed region\u2019s main city since its semi-autonomy was cancelled in 2019. 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