TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019India strips special status of
Kashmir sparking protests
Demonstrators in Lahore burn an effigy of Indian PM Narendra Modi yesterday (AP)
ADAM WITHNALL AND TIM WYATT
India has revoked the special constitutional protections that have maintained Kashmir’s status as the
country’s only Muslim-majority state, a move which is expected to prompt widespread unrest.
Thousands of extra soldiers have been deployed in the past week to what is already the most highly-
militarised region in the world, as the government pre-empted an angry reaction to yesterday’s move.
Protests have already taken place across Pakistan, while in Delhi, demonstrators marched shouting slogans
such as, “We will not tolerate murder of democracy” and holding signs that read, “We stand with Kashmir”.
Announced in parliament by India’s home minister Amit Shah and then rubber-stamped by the president,