Pakistan stops main train service to India as tension over Kashmir builds
India says changing the status of Kashmir is an internal affair and aimed at developing the region
08 August 2019 - 17:49
Islamabad/Srinigar, India — Pakistan halted its main train service to India on Thursday and banned Indian films as it exerted diplomatic pressure on New Delhi for revoking the special status of Kashmir, the region at the heart of 70 years of hostility between them.
This week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government withdrew Muslim majority Jammu and Kashmir's right to frame its own laws and allowed people from outside the region to buy property there in a bid to tighten its grip over the contested region...
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