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On August 5, 2019 Indian PM Narendra Modi made the world more dangerous with his lunacy in Kashmir, a year later things are worse
By Fareed Khan
A year ago this week the world became a more dangerous place, caused by India's actons India did in the autonomous Muslim majority state of Kashmir, at least the part that it controls. On that day Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stripped the state of its legal and constitutional autonomy, and through his actions said to Kashmiris that they had no say in the way they were to be governed. The actions elicited outrage from Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and from protesters the streets across the country.
For more than 70 years Kashmir has been a flashpointvI for India and Pakistan. It is a conflict that has largely been ignored by the rest of the world, except occasionally when the conflict flares up and it catches the world’s attention.
Canadian journalist and author Eric Margolis said in his 2002 book War At the Top of the World, that Kashmir is the most dangerous region in the world, and that if nuclear war war was going to break out anywhere in it would be in Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Both nations have tactical nuclear weapons in the region pointed at each other, meaning if a nuclear exchange were to happen people on both sides of the line of control would have little warning.
On August 5, 2019 Narendra Modi’s fascist BJP government poured gasoline on the fire in Kashmir when it unilaterally rescinded Article 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution, thereby revoking the sovereignty of a people who never accepted Indian control of their nation in the first place.
These two provisions were the foundations on which Kashmir acceded to join India after colonial India was partitioned by the British, and it gave Kashmir’s legislative assembly the power to define who were "permanent residents" of the state. As the only Muslim majority state in India these two constitutional provisions were key to preserving the identity and culture of the Kashmiri people.

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