INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ISLAMABAD: The communication blackout continues in the Indian Occupied Kashmir on the 7th consecutive day, Sunday, as internet and telephone
links are snapped and media is gagged since August 5.According to Kashmir Media Service, the Indian government had snapped television,
telephone and internet links to prevent demonstrations against its decision of revoking Article 370 of the Indian Constitution that granted
special status to Jammu and Kashmir.India had revoked Article 370 on Monday (August 5).Before that, the occupation authorities had clamped
an unprecedented communications blackout on the territory and arrested many political leaders.Meanwhile, the Indian authorities continue to
clamp curfew and other restrictions across occupied Kashmir by converting it into a military garrison and a big concentration camp by
deploying Indian troops and police personnel in every nook and corner of the territory.With internet services and telephone lines snapped
across occupied Kashmir, there is no contact of the external world with the residents of the territory.Local newspaper even failed to update
their online editions since the night of August 04
Majority of newspapers could also not be printed during all these days due to curfew and other restrictions.Almost all Hurriyat leaders,
including Syed Ali Gilani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, have been put under house arrest or in jails.Due to severe blockade, the people of the
Kashmir valley are facing acute shortage of essential commodities including baby food and life-saving medicines.TheIndianSubcontinent has
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