In its struggle to subdue Kashmir, India is stripping it of liberties

Liberties are certainly an issue. By shutting down media and networks people are being stripped of their visibility. This is being done to avoid responsibility for currently actions being taken. Not being able to openly discuss what you are doing is a clear sign you shouldn't be doing that.

Will there be a time when in the modern world, no territory will be forcefully occupied? Or do homosapiens lack the mental maturity to reach that point in their evolution?

BBC and Al-Jazeera are alleged to have used footage from inside POK and claiming it as from Srinagar. Also clips from within Kashmir valley have no evidence of protest against the revoked bills, rather a generic call for &quot;Azadi&quot;(Freedom). It is not clear if the protest is representation of ground reality.[Reference sadly only in Hindi, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kV5w1BQCzi0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=kV5w1BQCzi0</a>]<p>Also the other protest accepted by India could be a different one altogether, hence pictured differently and was possibly an actual one which happened days after BBC released their video.<p>Lockdown in a terrorist, separatist and rebel location is a security measure more than a curbing of Freedom of speech. The region has been constitutionally provided for a democratic government, despite the split. This piece of information somehow passes through the crevices of fractured media into oblivion. China and Pakistan&#x27;s stance is understandable since it is also a measure to tackle the Roadway China has been building through Pakistan to reach the ports and open up its trade routes. All of this with a funding of terrorism and extremism.

The Kashmir issue is an impasse. Neither will Pakistan relent its stake, nor will India relinquish its position any further and unfortunately the Kashmiris aren&#x27;t going to get their freedom from either of these nuclear superpowers, at least not without a lot of pain (they have been subject to too much, already). The blood-shed and injustice is simply not fair, and it can&#x27;t go on forever.<p>Despite autonomy granted by Pakistan to mountainous region of Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, they have allowed settlement of Pakistanis from other parts of the country diluting the native population. Though revenue and governance is legally kept aloof from Islamabad, the overarching influence of the occupiers cannot be understated. Pakistani administered Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, for all intents and purposes, is a fully integrated territory. The Pakistani constitution doesn&#x27;t allot right to independence and pro-independence political parties aren&#x27;t allowed to contest elections. &#x27;Azad Kashmir&#x27;, as Pakistani administered Kashmir is commonly known, is a misnomer.<p>India, in comparison, had afforded more political and legal leeway to the Jammu and Kashmir apparatus. They curbed down on it heavily after the insurgency of millitants in 1990s by slapping the territory with a god awful <i>special powers</i> military act viz. AFSPA. Since things aren&#x27;t going to change in the short term, it completely makes sense for the Indian interests to begin to integrate Jammu and Kashmir along with adjoining buddhist regions of Leh and Ladakh into the constitution. The protests from Kashmiris are valid, justified, and correct; but I can&#x27;t see India backing down from this. They need to stabilise the region than leave it in a perennial limbo flanked by oppressive and terrible military control on one side and the insurgent, violent struggle on the other.<p>It is sad that erstwhile Indian PM, Morarji Desai and the then Pakistani President, Zia ul Haq couldn&#x27;t put this issue to bed in 1980s when they had the chance. It will take leaders of incredible will, power, audacity, and sway on both sides of the border to bring this issue to bed for once and for all: Allegories will be written, songs will be sung, statues will be built, and peace will return to this beautiful land. Someday. The Kashmiris deserve it.<p>Refs:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rediff.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2001&#x2F;jul&#x2F;11spec.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rediff.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2001&#x2F;jul&#x2F;11spec.htm</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Armed_Forces_(Special_Powers)_Act" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Armed_Forces_(Special_Powers)_...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Azad_Kashmir" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Azad_Kashmir</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;UN_mediation_of_the_Kashmir_dispute" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;UN_mediation_of_the_Kashmir_di...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jammu_and_Kashmir_(princely_state)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jammu_and_Kashmir_(princely_st...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jammu_and_Kashmir" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jammu_and_Kashmir</a>

Unfortunately, the issue requires a significant historical context, which is carefully stripped from most of these media articles to control the narrative. :-&#x2F;