Kashmir: what happens now?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this month, India imposed a media blackout in Kashmir while they stripped the region of its autonomy, causing panic, outrage and protests. As the tensions between India and Pakistan escalate, we look at how we got here and what could happen next. And what does Priyanka Chopra have to do with it? Yogita Limaye, the BBC’s India correspondent, and BBC Pakistan and Afghanistan Correspondent Secunder Kermani assess whether the intractable conflict can ever be solved. Producers: Harriet Noble, Jessica Beck and Duncan Barber Mixed by Andy Mills Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.6	Hello, this is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4 with me, Tina Dehealy.
0:11.0	Every day we ask one big question about one big story.
0:22.1	Today, what happens now to Kashmir?
0:27.0	This video, tweeted by a BBC journalist last week, shows protesters running along a road
0:40.4	in Kashmir's largest city, Sri nago.
0:44.0	They're hiding and ducking as gunshots ring out,
0:49.0	fired at them by police.
0:51.0	This, despite the Indian government saying reports of the protest which thousands
0:55.8	attended were false.
0:59.2	Gishmiris took to the streets because of the Indian government's decision to strip the region of some of its
1:04.8	powers two weeks ago. But Kashmir has been a battleground for 70 years, the focus of a dispute
1:12.3	between two nuclear powers India and Pakistan.
1:17.0	We're going to hear about how it all started and what's happening now,
1:20.0	and how in the past few weeks as tensions have escalated again it sucked in more of
1:25.8	the world's attention including some pretty high profile celebrities and we'll
1:31.6	also look at what the future holds for the region.
1:34.0	I called up Yagita Lymai in Delhi.
1:37.0	I'm the BBC's India correspondent.
1:39.0	And Secunda Kamani in Islamabad.
1:41.0	I'm the BBC correspondent in Pakistan and Afghanistan. And he Gita began my telling me that to understand
1:47.2	Kashmir now you have to go back in time. Well yes we'd have to go back to 1947 for that at the time that India was
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