Curfew in disputed Kashmir will be eased after India's Independence Day on Thursday but communication blockade will continue, state governor says
For the Muslim festival of Eid al Adha on Monday, the Himalayan region's biggest mosque the Jama Masjid was ordered shut and people were only allowed to pray in smaller local mosques so that no big crowds could gather, witnesses said.
"What India has done is unacceptable to us. Our struggle will continue even if India keeps Kashmir locked down for months. Only solution is that India has to accept what Kashmiris want," one protester told AFP. Kashmiris fear India's move to put the region under greater New Delhi control will alter its demographics and cultural identity.
Islamabad previously "downgraded" diplomatic relations and suspended bilateral trade with India in the aftermath of New Delhi's move to scrap laws that were key to the accession treaty with Kashmir. Khan is spending the day in Pakistan-administered Kashmir to express solidarity with residents of India-administered Kashmir. He will make a speech in the Legislative Assembly to denounce Indian human rights violations in Kashmir.
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