India-based opinion website The Wire’s report titled “The Untold Story of Kashmir After August 5, 2019” paints a gloomy picture of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir in contravention to what being claimed as “normal” by the Modi regime.
According to Kashmir Media Service, The Wire’s reporter, Arfa Khanum Sherwani , spoke to some Kashmiri people in Zainakadal downtown area of Srinagar to learn what the ground situation is really like, and she concluded that everyone hesitates from speaking and even if someone dares to speak, he with tears in his eyes could only say “he needs nothing to add as everything is much clear”.
Having spoken to some people, the reporter reached the conclusion that: “The Indian government has been keen to push the narrative that the situation on the ground is ‘normal’ – and in fact even better than they were before.”
However, “the people of Kashmir painted a very different picture – in which silence, fear, rising prices and unemployment have taken over the region”.
One of the interviewees told the reporter that he had nothing to say, as life had lost meaning to him. He was just spending the day. —KMS
