Restive Kashmir marks 100 days since India stripped autonomy #KashmirStillUnderCurfew https://t.co/A688Skogz3 — Lord Nazir Ahmed (@nazir_lord) November 12, 2019Shops and businesses have remained shut to protest against the controversial decision, and children have not been going to school. Dozens of journalists held a silent demonstration against the internet ban, holding their laptops with open with blank screens or held placards with the words "100 days no internet" and "stop humiliating Kashmir journalists." "The authorities have treated journalists too as potential trouble-makers and choked journalism in the process," a freelance journalist reported AFP. Authorities have justified the ban as necessary to stop militants from neighbouring Pakistan from using the internet to fan radicalisation in the territory. Pakistan on Tuesday on display a statue of an Indian pilot whose plane was shot down over Kashmir during the February skirmishes.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 13, 2019 10:05 UTC