India lift restrictions causing ‘devastating impact’ on Kashmiris: US Foreign Affairs Committee

patients have died because they could not call an ambulance or could not reach the hospital on time, the majority of them with heart-related disease

Washington: U.S foreign affairs committee urges India to lift restrictions causing ‘devastating impact’ on Kashmiris.

According to US Foreign Affairs Committee twitter India’s communication blackout in Kashmir is having a devastating impact on the lives and welfare of everyday Kashmiris. It’s time for India to lift these restrictions and afford Kashmiris the same rights and privileges as any other Indian citizen.

Remember that two months after the Indian government revoked Kashmir’s autonomy and imposed harsh security measures across the Kashmir Valley, doctors and patients here say the crackdown has taken many lives, in large part because of a government-imposed communication blackout, including shutting down the internet.

More in detail “At least a dozen patients have died because they could not call an ambulance or could not reach the hospital on time, the majority of them with heart-related disease,’’ a doctor in a Kashmir hospital who did not want to be identified by his full name out of fear or reprisals.