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Two months on from the Indian government's decision to revoke the special autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir,

the tensions raised by that move show no sign of dissipating.

Indian-administered Kashmir remains in a form of lockdown.

Hundreds of people, including senior local politicians, remain in detention.

Thousands of extra troops are on the streets and communications

links are still disrupted. For my guest today, it is deeply personal. Ilteja Mufti's mother,

Mbubha Mufti, has been in detention since Article 370 was revoked. She is leader of the PDP party in Kashmir and was

until last year the Territory's chief minister. Ilteja was briefly put under house arrest but has since

been allowed to travel and has also, thanks to a court decision, been able to visit her mother.

Elteja belongs to a family steeped in the post-partition politics of Kashmir, but she has till now played no political

role herself. But with her mother's liberty denied and the Modi government determined to

redefine the relationship between Indian-administered Kashmir and the

Indian state, she has decided to speak out. So do Kashmiris have any choice but to accept

the new reality? Well, El Tidja Mufti joins me now on the line from Delhi. Welcome to Hard Talk.

Thank you for having me here.

Let me begin with your personal situation. You are speaking to me from the Indian capital Delhi,

not from your home in Kashmir. Does that suggest that you personally are free right now to travel,

to communicate, to do whatever you want?

Well, not in the real sense, no. I have to, I've received whale threats from the government of India that if I continue speaking, they're going to slap what is known as the PSA, that's the

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