Kashmir resistance leader accuses India's Modi of attempting to silence dissent
REGIONAL polls to elect a local government will not resolve Kashmir’s decades-old conflict, a key resistance leader has said.
Ahead of the final phase of elections in the Indian-controlled region, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq — who has spent most of the last five years under house detention — said polls are being held as political voices, contesting India’s sovereignty over the region, remain silenced.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s far-right Hindu nationalist government stripped Kashmir of its semi-autonomous constitutional status in 2019.
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