Lawfare Archive: Christine Fair on Developments in Kashmir

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🗓️ 10 May 2025

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From August 27, 2019: On August 5, the Indian government announced that it was revoking “special status” for the states of Jammu and Kashmir, enshrined in Article 370 of its constitution. Since then, the government has instituted a lockdown in the Kashmir valley, hundreds of people have been detained, there have been mass protests, and tens of thousands of Indian troops have been deployed to the region. Professor Christine Fair of Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program sat down with Benjamin Wittes to discuss Article 370, its history, and the current state-of-play in the region.

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0:25.2	Lawfare No Bull, and The Aftermath.
0:43.4	I'm Carolyn Korn and Turnout Lawfare with an episode from the Lawfare for May 10th, 2025.
0:46.6	On Tuesday, India carried out strikes on nine sites in Pakistan in response to a terrorist
0:51.5	attack that killed 26 people, most of them tourists, and Indian
0:55.9	administered Kashmir. India's government linked the attack to Pakistan, which denied involvement.
1:02.4	Following the strikes, Pakistan's prime minister authorized armed forces to undertake, quote,
1:07.8	corresponding action. For today's archive episode, I selected an episode from August 27th, 2019, in which Christine
1:16.5	Fair joined Benjamin Wittes to discuss the situation between India and Pakistan after India
1:22.4	announced that it was revoking, quote, special status for the states of Jammu and Kashmir, which Pakistan called,
1:29.4	quote, a grave injustice. They talked about the special status enshrined in Article 370,
1:35.1	the subsequent lockdown and true presence in Kashmir, and more.
1:52.0	I'm Michaela Fogle, and this is the Lawfare podcast August 27, 2019.
2:02.8	On August 5th, the Indian government announced that it was revoking the special status for the states of Jammu and Kashmir enshrined in Article 370 of its constitution.
2:07.3	Since then, the government has instituted a lockdown in the Kashmir Valley.
2:14.4	Hundreds of people have been detained. There have been mass protests and tens of thousands of Indian troops deployed to the region.
2:18.7	Professor Christine Fair of Georgetown University's security studies program sat down with Benjamin Wittes to discuss Article 370, its history, and the current state of
2:24.5	play in the region. It's the Lawfare podcast, episode 447, Christine Fair on developments in Kashmir.
2:33.2	So walk us through the last couple of weeks in Kashmir,
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