India annexes Kashmir and brings us back to Partition

August 08, 2019 13:33

"Whatever these and other Kashmiris have wanted, I am certain they didn't want what they got this week: Kashmir's special status, and relative autonomy, under India's Constitution revoked.

Some 35,000 more soldiers in the world's most militarized region, schools shut, offices shut, the internet snatched away, landlines dead. Local political leaders -- even those happy to collaborate with the Indian authorities in New Delhi -- locked up.

"A former chief minister of the region said, hours before being arrested, that it had been a mistake to side with India at Partition. And now India is taking us back to Partition all over again by annexing Kashmir and throwing millions of its citizens in a cage."

Read Pakistani novelist Hamid Mir's column for the New York Times.

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