Pakistan cricket team captain Sarfaraz Ahmed has expressed his feelings for the Kashmiri people after the Indian government decided to remove Article 370. Jammu and Kashmir has now become a Union Territory.
Sarfaraz, in his statement, said he is standing with the Kashmiris and praying to the almighty for them in a tough time. "I pray to the Almighty Allah to help and rescue our Kashmiri brothers sail over these tough times.
"We all equally share their pain and misery. Entire Pakistan today stands with them."
Some schools re-opened in Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday but few students turned up amid ongoing tensions over the Indian government's shock decision to strip the region of its special status two weeks ago.
A lockdown remains largely in place in the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley but authorities said they were re-opening nearly 200 primary schools in Srinagar, the largest city.
However, classrooms at schools visited by reporters mostly appeared empty. Parents said that they were worried about safety.
Despite the security clampdown in Kashmir, there have been frequent protests against the loss of special status and some have turned violent.
Kashmir is a Himalayan territory disputed by India and Pakistan. Each country controls part of the territory and the Indian-administered side - Jammu and Kashmir - has now been downgraded from a federal state and split into two union territories ruled by Delhi.
The Captain post=369642 Wrote:India has launched air raids close to the border of Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. It is New Delhi's first military action in the aftermath of the worst attack on security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir in decades.
Pakistan says it reserves the right to respond to Indian air raids on its territory early on Tuesday morning and has called a meeting of its top nuclear command authority, as tensions peak between the South Asian neighbours.
India's foreign secretary said the "non-military pre-emptive action" targeted a training camp for armed group Jaish-e-Mohammed, which claimed a suicide attack earlier this month that killed 42 Indian security forces personnel and brought tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours to a boil.
Al Jazeera's Faiz Jamil reports from New Delhi.
ketchim post=369679 Wrote:Mapster, you must factor in the Religious element into the equation
BJP Modi is a hindu fanatic ideology....
forget about Silk Road and the BRI and economic initiatives
The Muslim must NOT gain any kind of Wealth or future ambitions ~
no you cant ketchim! yes the Fanatic Hindu ideology and Modi's coming out of that and needs it for his political power.
the BRI aspect is the western thing and the Chinese/Indian antipathy makes India an opposition factor to the BRI. they were until a recent positive movement between Modi and Jin Ping.
but the west is totally against the BRI and are committed to its derailment. the west has been using Indian as their agent to catalyze that situation into a great war.. stoking the fiyahs between the three neighbors to produce a disturbance that would kill BRI.
Modi would never have taken over Kashmir if the Americans did not agree. they set that up also by political interference..using the Hindu fanatics to push Modi into action
this development cannot be separated from international considerations..read western influence
