Indefinite Curfew Imposed in Kashmir in Wake of Killings
Authorities imposed an indefinite curfew Friday on Jammu and Kashmir after up to 40 people were killed during demonstrations against New Delhi’s rule of India’s only Muslim-majority state.
The demonstrations, in which hundreds of thousands of people took part, climaxed a week of mounting protests after the lifting of a curfew that had lasted several weeks.
The focus of the demonstrations was the Srinagar office of the U.N. Observer Mission, which monitors the dividing line between the one-third of the Kashmir region administered by Pakistan and the larger part under Indian rule.
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