India: Indian PM Modi to address first public event in occupied Kashmir since clampdown

NEW DELHI, 23 April 2022, (TON): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Sunday hold his first public event in occupied Jammu and Kashmir since New Delhi imposed a sweeping security clampdown.

Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government has sought to quell a long-running insurgency in Indian-occupied Kashmir and buttress its hold over the Muslim-majority region.

New Delhi nullified the area's limited autonomy in 2019, when authorities arrested thousands and imposed the world's longest internet shutdown, seeking to forestall local opposition to the move.

It is the most militarised part of India, with more than half a million soldiers and paramilitaries deployed across the region.

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