A Year Later, Kashmir’s Economy Faces Disaster

India’s takeover, complicated by Covid lockdown, has “broken the spine of the economy”

Aug 05, 2020

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By: Majid Maqbool

On the anniversary of the August 5 takeover of the Kashmir region by India, the economy is on a ventilator. In February, weeks before the government enforced another lockdown to contain the spread of the Coronavirus, the business community issued a joint SOS which was published as full-page ads in prominent newspapers in Kashmir.

“The …

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