India shut off communications and severely restricted movement in the part of Kashmir it controls on August 4
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Pakistan downgrades ties with India in deepening Kashmir row
India stripped the Himalayan region of its seven-decade-long semi-autonomous status on Monday
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Pakistan to close airspace for Indian flights – reports
Move comes amid increasing tensions between neighbouring countries
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India to scrap Kashmir’s special status amid security crackdown
Prominent political leaders in Indian-administered Kashmir were placed under house arrest overnight and the Indian Army has deployed thousands of extra troops across the valley
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Indian Kashmir under lockdown order amid troop build-up: state govt
The recent tensions started in the last 10 days after New Delhi deployed at least 10,000 troops, but a security source said a further 70,000 had been dispatched
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India, Pakistan trade attack claims as Kashmir tensions rise
Tourists and students scrambling to leave Kashmir since Jammu and Kashmir state government said they should leave “immediately”
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Anxious tourists flee Indian Kashmir after ‘terror’ warning
Thousands of military reinforcements were arriving in the Himalayan territory, also claimed by Pakistan, where a three-decade old insurgency has left tens of thousands dead
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Gallery: Trump meets Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House
President Donald Trump offered to help resolve India and Pakistan’s decades-long conflict over the territory of Kashmir — citing an invitation from Narendra Modi that the Indian prime minister’s government later denied.
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Video: Are tensions escalating between India and Pakistan?
Tensions between India and Pakistan raged Saturday as heavy firing by their armies killed at least seven people on either side of their fiercely disputed Kashmir border.
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Tempers cool after Kashmir crisis, with Modi and Khan cast as peacemakers
Kashmir has been split between India and Pakistan since 1947, and two of the Asian nations’ three wars have been over the Muslim-majority mountainous territory
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India, Pakistan exchange heavy border fire
In a fearsome 24 hour spell, two soldiers and two civilians died on the Pakistan side, while a woman and her two children died on the Indian side
Disputed Airspace In Kashmir
Risk of India-Pakistan war may hang on the fate of downed pilot
While the US, Russia and China are all calling for calm, domestic political pressures make it far from easy for either side in the conflict to back down
Disputed Airspace In Kashmir
India says its fighter jets destroyed terrorist camp in Pakistan
Relations between Pakistan and India have been extremely tense since a suicide car bombing, claimed by the Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed
Antonio Guterres
UN urges India, Pakistan to take immediate steps to defuse tensions
India and Pakistan have been locked in a diplomatic clash following a suicide attack on February 14 in Kashmir that killed 40 Indian security personnel, triggering counter-operations by Indian forces in the area
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Pakistani PM Imran Khan vows to hold peace talks with India
Prime Minister makes India peace talks announcement during a speech at a Saudi Arabian investment conference