water shortages land clearance there's some flammable material and once again i did. see. the. world going up in smoke. the world on fire starts august 12th d.w. we have to invite it back. and dance with the baby. this is the wus a show on today's program a double triumph for india asking the nationalists i don't know from too many muslims in the region. since the government in delhi has removed the autonomy of kashmir and imposed direct rule on the most image of the region. on the same prime minister nuri kicks off construction of

a temple to on one of the most important chords. on the ruins of. i'm british welcome to the w's asia glad you could join us exactly one year ago today the indian government revoked the special autonomy of its only muslim majority states the state of german kashmir the revocation of all tickle 370 shocked residents of the region but that's not all the government also slick the state into 2 federally controlled territories calling them just one kashmir and. now this is effectively took political representation away from the people of kashmir and into the hands of delhi the move further strained diplomatic relations with india's neighbor pockets. which only yesterday issued

a new or fishel which includes all of kashmir including the parts controlled by india now india has called the move an exercise in political observatory if that's confusing remember both countries claim this whole region in its entirety but govern it only partially meanwhile the residents of indian controlled kashmir have been attempting to live their lives through new york continuous destruction over the past year their calling to be a black day the following report explains why. outrage in the indian parliament on august 5 last year the indian government stunned opposition lawmakers by announcing it was revoking cuss me as autonomy the basis of the region's complex relationship with india for decades. they said the special status of german and kashmir is going to be automatically null and void.

the hindu nationalist government said the move was necessary to spur economic development and to better integrate the region with the rest of the country the opposition was shocked. today the ruling party b j p has berri the constitution and the democracy. thank you as a result 7000000 people in the kashmir valley were put under lockdown for months the government severely restricted freedom of movement and banned gatherings it kept landlines and mobile phones and even shut down the internet. thousands of people were arrested including 3 former chief ministers reportedly hundreds of people still remain under house arrest or behind past mostly without charge there are also reports of torture indian authorities deny the allegations.

neighboring pakistan still condemns india's actions since the 5th of august the illegal measures taken by india there is a new. there's a new wave a new vehicle of resentment against the atrocities being committed across the sea the rest assured the people of pakistan stand with you and he adds kashmir will be part of pakistan. inshallah. pakistan. at the end of verse 3 of the autonomy revocation the kashmir conflict seems as far from resolution as ever and little seems to have changed in the region itself now did have a correspondence allowed to join me now from vanderbilt just on the outskirts of sri lanka in indian controlled kashmir allow then what is the situation on the ground in indian controlled kashmir today. british

situations where you are calm and very peaceful i would say because the government has taken you know these steps. have announced i mean dad you know i was cut a few which has been lifted last night but it is highly deprived of security forces and you can see a preliminary clip of blocking it's so in that sense government has control of dorky you know the entire crushed me but then on the ports a few on the smaller protest on other you know our people have come out and. said ok not against the government's decision awful it should article 370 i don't know why is it so though there was a meeting of some you know kashmir you look at leaders for indian leaders and they wanted to have a beat including a joint meeting of different local parties political parties but the

security forces have not allowed give i have spoken throughout these leaders and they said that they have announced it is ok but they were not allowed to go out of their own to have this 1st meeting so if this meeting would have happened happen it would have happened you know in a year in last year fust time i was there but it didn't it police so the government has yeah so the government has country or he didn't know courtly and people are stuck in their homes talk to us a bit amount of the posterior mention that this would have been the fuster time and this meeting a political meeting would have have fun but how has this boss here been for the people of kashmir. i would say that kashmir has been under a lot don't last one complete one. you know initially the

garment of the india imposed cuts you is interesting because they had taken to be you know a serious disease enough getting our ticket to the 70 which gives kashmir a special special stare does and then. you know because. it was almost 4 to 5 months that garment did not allow any activity it was almost shut and then when government announced that they are going to open it here separatists you know parties in open admission has decided not to open so we went on up to almost it months and then when everybody was a good go up in kashmir there was a pool not quite as and so then again it was a log on so for the last almost one year it is under lockdown economy has suffered badly people out here i have talked with them they're saying that their huge losses and the education has suffered for the last almost one yet the schools have not

opened and there is no point that it so that the 2nd piece them properly why are you no 2 on one ringtone each and in fact of missing revenue to you on the internet . some of the internet i'm a correspondent on the indian controlled kashmir thank you so much. the anniversary of the removal of indian meters autonomy also falls on the same day of the prime minister narendra modi laid the foundation stone of a controversial new hindu temple it's dedicated to law drop as in and is in the city of york there in the north more the arrived at the site of the temple and offered prayers to a statue of the dates over the years his party the hindu nationalist b j p has made construction of the temple one of its main old planks but it's an extremely divisive issue in india as it's being built on land where the 16th century mosque once stored. in 1902 the bobbery mustard mosque was the

target of rightwing hindus from the b j p sister organizations in december using pickaxes and crowbars the mosque was razed to the ground to make way for the construction of the temple the destruction sparked large scale rioting leaving it on 2000 people dead across india and last year the supreme court allowed the construction of the temple to go ahead. joining me now from delhi is. a journalist and author of among other books of a biography of not in the room or the as well mr macleod there welcome the prime minister laying the foundation stone of the rom temple on the same day as the anniversary of the removal of kashmir this autonomy is this just a coincidence no i do not think that the timing of the only should link the 1st anniversary of the one to complete 70. it's completely planned basically to show that what would decide it done english

week last year was also very much part of your culture the nationalist movement and the sentiment which has been raised for the last 3 and a half. days partly to be agreed and it gnashed lies. so you know you talk about this a national sentiment that is coming from the beach or p. and its allies what does that mean for india has he done for you turn the page today is india leaving its secular credentials behind india has been evolving for the last. decade has been a slow gradual shift from. nationalism would it lead you nationalism for the last several days it too de marte of very important mindstorm in that particular part he appeared to be going to new in that part but

quite some time at least till that time the b.g.p. unwisdom will continue to be going to dominant position how fast and how soon it will travel on this or is going to be determined by a lot of. events which are going to take place for the next few years most importantly how this government manages the over 900 by debate and continuing military conflict with china but given the religious nationalism material speaking about does all that matter at all does the government's report card on covert 19 or the confrontation we're trying our matter talk on. but the last 25 years have been hit with the g.o.p. is struggling to find these issues on which it can point distillations or win the popular support the people he did always use simple agitation and b.d.'s of the issues which are part of their hindu nationalists to get to know to try to please people and when they were on their own side that is what has been done in service.

foundationally said when yet this time comes at a time when there are possibly deficiencies in the government's handling of the over 90 pandemic as well as the military conflict with china so this becomes a fallback option in gears the popularity of the government is still more the starts to bring you all back to something which will be only the leaders and cultural symbol. and also discovered for you are there for the timing you're under more about that done this an author thank you so much for joining us. thank you and there's of course more background on this story on our website did up a dot com for its leisure find any across pakistan today solidarity walks were held on a day called the day of exploitation in kashmir march as well when i was in support of the people of indian administered kashmir believe you know with images of some of those marchers thank you so much for watching we'll see you at the same time

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