Kashmir still under lockdown after anti-India leader’s death

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian authorities are enforcing a information lockdown and a near-total communications blackout for a 2nd consecutive time successful disputed Kashmir aft the decease of apical absorption person Syed Ali Geelani. His decease astatine property 91 and the ensuing crackdown by Indian authorities item the turmoil seething conscionable beneath the aboveground successful the region. Armed constabulary and soldiers patrolled barricaded streets and ordered residents to enactment indoors successful anticipation of anti-India protests aft Friday prayers. Geelani spearheaded Kashmir’s question for the close to self-determination. India stripped Kashmir of its semi-autonomy successful 2019 and considers the equipped conflict successful the portion to beryllium a proxy warfare by Pakistan. Most Muslim Kashmiris see it a morganatic state struggle.