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Rebecca Ratcliff e
Delhi
Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran
Khan, threatened to “teach Delhi a
lesson” yesterday and vowed to fi ght
until the end against any Indian vio-
lations in disputed Kashmir.
In some of his strongest words since
Delhi revoked Indian-administered
Kashmir’s special status last week,
Khan said the army was preparing a
response against anticipated Indian
aggression in Pakistan-administered
Kashmir.
“The Pakistani army has solid infor-
mation that they [India] are planning
to do something in Pakistani Kashmir,
and they are ready and will give a solid
response,” Khan said during a visit to
Muzaff arabad, capital of Pakistan-
administered Kashmir, in a speech
marking Pakistan’s independence day.
“We have decided that if India com-
mits any type of violation we will fi ght
until the end,” Khan said. “The time
has arrived to teach you a lesson.”
Pakistan, which also claims Kash-
mir and has fought two wars with India
over the region, responded furiously
last week to Delhi’s decision to revoke
Indian-administered Kashmir’s spe-
cial status, comparing the Indian
government to Nazis and suggesting
they could carry out ethnic cleansing.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry said yes-
terday that it had asked the UN security
council for an urgent meeting , while
Khan has vowed to lobby heads of state
over what he says are illegal actions by
the Indian government. The response
by other global powers has so far been
muted. As tensions escalated , mil-
lions of people in Indian-administered
Kashmir faced their 10th day with no
landlines, mobiles or internet access.
The territory will remain under
a curfew today as India marks its
independence day, a date usually
accompanied by protests.
Delhi’s decision strips the disputed
state of Kashmir and Jammu of any
autonomy, scrapping laws that pre-
vented outsiders from buying land.
The state will also be split in two.
It is the most radical change in Kash-
mir since the region joined the Indianunion, and many Kashmiris fear it will
alter the demography in what is the
country’s only Muslim-majority state.
“It’s an existential battle now,” the
Kashmiri politician Shah Faesal told
the Guardian on Tuesday. He was
reportedly detained at Delhi airport
yesterday. Other high-profi le fi gures,
including Omar Abdullah – the scion of
a prominent political family in Kash-
mir and a former chief minister in the
state – were arrested last week.
Faesal said Delhi’s actions were “an
insult to the dignity of the people”,
adding: “ We will see ground mobilisa-
tion in the coming days and in the long
run you will have sentiment of aliena-
tion going further and [it will] erupt.”
He continued: “The commonrefrain is that everything has fi nished.
Everything has been snatched from us.
These are the common lines on
every Kashmiri’s lips these days. We
have no choice left but to resist.”
About 500 people have reportedly
been arrested , apparently to preventdisorder. Despite strict curfews and a
heavy paramilitary presence, 10,000
people protested on the streets of
Kashmir’s main city, Srinagar, last
week when the curfew was briefl y
lifted for Friday prayers.
India has said the protests were not
representative of all people’s opinions,
and has downplayed demonstrations,
initially suggesting no more than 20
people were involved. BBC footage
appeared to show huge crowds on
the streets.
The communications blackout and
restrictions on movement mean there
is a lack of independent information
about what is happening in Kashmir.Journal Mirza Waheed Page 3Khan to
India: we
will fi ght
until the
end over
Kashmir
▼ People shout anti-Indian slogans
at a rally in Karachi as Pakistan
celebrates its independence day
PHOTOGRAPH: ASIF HASSAN/AFP/GETTYNina Lakhani
Mexico City
A rape victim in El Sal vador who deliv-
ered a stillborn baby as a teenager is
facing decades in prison for aggravated
homicide as prosecutors seek to prove
she deliberately induced an abortion.
Evelyn Beatríz Hernández Cruz ,
21, from a poor rural family in Cojute-
peque, goes on trial today for the
second time in a case that highlights
the aggressive criminal persecution
of Salvadorean women who suff er
obstetric complications.
It is also the fi rst trial since President
Nayib Bukele was elected in June, six
months after observing that no woman
should be jailed for suff ering an obstet-
ric emergency.
Hernández said she was raped in
2015. On 6 April 2016, aged 18, she
went to the latrine outside her family
home suff ering diarrhoea and severeabdominal pain. She gave birth to a
stillborn boy, and lost consciousness.
She was found passed out and covered
in blood by her mother, who took her
to the nearest hospital without real-
ising her daughter had suff ered an
obstetric emergency. Medical staff
called police and prosecutors. Three
days later, Hernández was transferred
to a women’s prison to await trial.
Hernández has always said she
did not know she was pregnant. The
medical coroner recorded aspiration
pneumonia as the cause of death.
Despite the autopsy results, in
July 2017 Hernández was sentenced
to 30 years in prison for aggravated
homicide. She was freed in February
when an appeal judge quashed the
conviction on the grounds that the evi-
dence presented at trial did not prove
Hernández intended – directly or indi-
rectly – to harm the foetus.
Prosecutors will now retry Hernán-
dez on the same charge.El Salvador rape victim who
had stillborn boy faces retrial
Leyland Cecco
TorontoJustin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minis-
ter, violated the country’s ethics laws
when he urged his attorney general not
to prosecute an engineering company
in a confl ict of interest case, a watch-
dog ruled yesterday.
According to a report by Cana-
da’s ethics commissioner, Trudeau
engaged in “fl agrant attempts to infl u-
ence” his attorney general and minister
of justice, Jody Wilson-Raybould.
The ruling is a blow to Trudeau’s
governing Liberal party, coming lessthan 10 weeks before a general elec-
tion. The prime minister and his aides
are accused of pressuring Wilson-
Raybould to abandon prosecution of
the Montreal-based construction com-
pany SNC-Lavalin.
The ethics commissioner, Mario
Dion, said Trudeau and his offi cials
tried to circumvent, undermine and
discredit a decision by federal prose-
cutors saying the fi rm should face trial
on corruption charges.
While prosecutors sought criminal
charges against SNC-Lavalin for fraud
and bribery in Libya from 2001 to 2011,
Trudeau and his team lobbied for the
deferred prosecution agreement, in
essence allowing a fi ne in lieu of crim-
inal prosecution.
After Wilson-Raybould refused to
overrule the prosecutor’s decision she
lost her roles. Trudeau has denied any
wrong doing , though he has admitted
he tried to persuade Wilson-Raybould
last year to reconsider the decision.Watchdog rules
Trudeau broke
ethics laws
‘Everything has
fi nished ... We
have no choice left
but to resist’Shah Faesal
Kashmiri politician▲ Evelyn Hernández was sentenced
to 30 years in prison in July 2017РЕЛИЗ ПОДГОТОВИЛА ГРУППА "What's News" VK.COM/WSNWS