Gunmen attack India forces in Kashmir

SANAA, Aug. 5 (YPA) – Gunmen on Wednesday attacked Indian security forces with a grande and gunfire in Kashmir, despite heightened security preparations to mark the one-year anniversary of the end of autonomy in the region.

Security forces have deployed in Kashmir and set up roadblocks to prevent demonstrations a year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government decided to strip India’s only Muslim-majority state of its own rights.

“Change was necessary to develop the region and integrate it into the rest of India, but it has angered many Kashmiris and neighboring Pakistan,” the government said.

In Srinagar, a number of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s supporters gathered at their headquarters to rise the flag of India on this occasion, as the party sought for a long time to end Kashmir’s special status.

Party spokesman Altaf Thakur said all party headquarters in the region had seen similar celebrations, adding that “this is an important and historic day for our party.”

In the rest of Srinagar, security forces imposed security measures in months, banned transfers and banned a proposed meeting of politicians.

India and Pakistan claim sovereignty over the entire territory of Kashmir, for which the two countries have fought two of their three wars, each of which is governed by parts.

Militants have been fighting to end India’s rule in the Kashmir-controlled part of Kashmir since 1989, in a conflict that has claimed at least 50,000 lives, according to official figures.

E.M