Lockdown hits access to healthcare in besieged Kashmir
(WorldNews Pakistan)

Weeks of security restrictions and a communications blackout have resulted in long waits at hospitals, medicine shortages, and patients going without urgent operations and treatment in Indian-administered Kashmir, local doctors warn. On 5 August, India´s government stripped the state of Jammu and Kashmir of autonomy and put the region on lockdown - boosting troop levels, restricting movement and public gatherings, arresting prominent politicians, and blocking all internet and phone services. India says the measures are necessary to maintain order; critics see it as a sharp escalation after years of rights violations and part of a broader plan by India´s Hindu-nationalist government to...