{"id":315279,"date":"2019-09-27T04:20:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T04:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315279"},"modified":"2019-09-27T06:32:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T06:32:47","slug":"us-asks-india-to-ease-restrictions-in-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/us-asks-india-to-ease-restrictions-in-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"US asks India to ease restrictions in Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-300677 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/abduct.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct.jpg 781w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-696x538.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-543x420.jpg 543w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/>The United States wants New Delhi to quickly ease restrictions imposed in Kashmir, a senior official said on Thursday\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came after President Donald Trump met separately the leaders of India and Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Trump had earlier expressed willingness to mediate to ease tensions between India and Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The centre in August scrapped Article 370 of the Constitution, ending Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s special status, and bifurcation of it into two Union Territories \u2014 Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Several political leaders were detained, and mobile internet service was snapped off amid restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Without revealing whether President Trump brought up Kashmir issue with Modi, Alice Wells, the top State Department official for South Asia told the reporters that the United States has raised concerns on Kashmir at the highest levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She further said the US is concerned by widespread detentions, including those of politicians and business leaders, and the restrictions on the residents of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe hope to see rapid action &#8212; the lifting of the restrictions and the release of those who have been detained,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Sunday President Trump joined PM Modi in a joint rally of over 50,000 Indian-Americans at the mega \u2018Howdy, Modi\u2019 event in Houston.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States wants New Delhi to quickly ease restrictions imposed in Kashmir, a senior official said on Thursday\u00a0 This came after President Donald Trump met separately the leaders of India and Pakistan. President Trump had earlier expressed willingness to mediate to ease tensions between India and Pakistan. The centre in August scrapped Article 370 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[574,1141,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315280,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315279\/revisions\/315280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}