An Indian news magazine said Tuesday that the government had ordered it to delete an online report that implicated soldiers in the torture and killing of civilians in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). The magazine said Tuesday that the information ministry had sent it an official order demanding the story be taken down within 24 hours. The information ministry declined to comment. Tens of thousands of soldiers, rebels and civilians have been killed since the outbreak of a freedom struggle against Indian rule in 1989. Read also: Three Indian soldiers killed in IIOJK gunfightIndia blames Pakistan for backing ‘militants’, a charge Islamabad denies, saying it only supports a Kashmiri struggle for the right to self-determination.
