Whilst Right wing Hindu Indians celebrate victory over long gone Muslim Rulers: One year on, Kashmiris weep under a harsh lockdown where they are still cut off from the rest of the world.
August 2 – Indian authorities ask tourists to leave IOK citing ‘terror threats.’ Government sends in over 45,000 soldiers to set up barricades and get into position with riot control vehicles.
August 4 – Mehbooba Mufti, Omar Abdullah and president of the Peoples Conference party, Sajad Lone, along with 500 other leaders— are placed under house arrest and section 144 – which prevents a gathering of three or more people- imposed in Srinagar.
August 5 – New Delhi unilaterally revokes Article 370 and 35A that granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, imposes strict lockdown in the state. Strong Reaction from Pakistan.
August 6 – The EU, OIC, and Turkey urged restraint and caution to both India and Pakistan.
August 7 – Pakistan expels Indian envoy and downgrade ties.
August 16 – UN Security Council holds a rare closed-door session on the Kashmir crisis.
August 16-21 – US President Trump urges both Pakistan and India to normalise ties and defuse tensions in his discussion with the prime ministers of Pakistan and India. Trump offers again to mediate on the Kashmir issue.
August 24 – Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and his delegation are stopped from entering Kashmir as they try to assess the actual situation on ground.
August 25 – Top Indian bureaucrat Kannan Gopinathan resigns from government service to protest India’s handling of Kashmir.
September 10 – Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistan’s foreign minister says India could drive the two nuclear-armed countries “into an accidental war.” And that New Delhi had turned Kashmir “into the largest prison on this planet.”
September 11 – US Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and Congressman James P McGovern ask US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to press the Indian government to immediately end the communications blackout in Kashmir.
September 16 – India arrests Farooq Abdullah, three-time former chief minister of Kashmir under the Public Safety Act.
September 24 – US President Donald Trump once again extends offer of mediation over Kashmir while meeting with PM Imran Khan in New York.
September 24 – Turkey’s President Erdogan in his address to the UNGA stresses that solving Kashmir issue was a prerequisite to prosperity and stability in South Asia.
September 28 – PM Imran Khan delivered a strong heartfelt speech on the floor of the United Nations in which he discusses climate change, money laundering, Islamophobia & Kashmir.
October 1 – Malaysia’s PM Mahathir, in his address to the 74th UN general assembly session, accuses India of “invading and occupying the country” of Jammu & Kashmir.
October 7 – US House panel asks India to end Kashmir lockdown.
October 29 – UN human rights office expressed its extreme concern over the developments in the India-administered Kashmir. The office was worried at the wide range of human rights Kashmiris were being deprived.
11 December 2019 – India passes its controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in which it offers Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist minorities in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh the right to migrate and settle in India.
March 2020 – Farooq Abdullah was released on March 13, Omar Abdullah, his son was released on March 24.
July 3, 2020 – Mehbooba Mufti’s detention extended by 3 months
August 5, 2020 – BJP organises the inauguration of the Ram Mandhir Temple to be built at the site of the destroyed Babri Mosque.
