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Now on Hard Talk, Stephen Sacker interviews the president of the Jammu and Kashmir People's Movement,

Shah Faisal. Since recording the interview on Tuesday, there are reports today that Mr. Shah has been detained

by the authorities in Delhi and prevented from leaving the country.

Welcome to Hard Talk on the BBC World Service with me, Stephen Saka.

My guest today is a young Kashmiri politician who declared aim of bringing fresh ideas to his troubled home territory has been dramatically overtaken by recent events.

He's a trained medical doctor and a former senior civil servant, a technocrat rather than an ideologue, who made a deliberate effort to reach out to young Kashmir is tired

of politics as usual. But his moderate, pragmatic brand of politics may not survive the crisis

that currently engulfs Muslim majority Kashmir. On August 5th, the Modi government revoked the state's long-established

special autonomous status. Delhi has imposed a form of de facto direct rule in Jammu and Kashmir.

In anticipation of a furious backlash, the Indian government imposed a form of lockdown with troops on the streets, a curfew in

place for much of the time, and electronic communication heavily curtailed. So what options do Kashmiris

have now? Well, Shah Faisal joins me from Delhi. Welcome to Hard Talk. Thank you very much.

There you sit in India's capital,

but I'm sure your thoughts are with the people of Kashmir. What are the latest reports you are hearing of what is happening in your home territory in terms of the curfew and the lockdown?

Because the Indian authorities say they've begun to

gradually ease it.

It's the eighth day of curfew and the news which I am getting from Kashmir is that it continues

to be the same.

Around 8 million people continue to be under incarceration.

Roads are deserted.

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