- Title: Kashmir: Protesters march in Lahore against India
- Date: 27th September 2019
- Summary: LAHORE, PAKISTAN (SEPTEMBER 27, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS CHANTING (Urdu): "KASHMIR WILL BECOME PAKISTAN" / SHAKING FISTS IN AIR PROTESTER HOLDING PLACARD READING: (English) "GO INDIA. GO BACK" PROTESTERS LISTENING TO SPEECHES MOCK-UP OF A MISSILE ON A VEHICLE EFFIGY OF INDIAN PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI STRUNG FROM A POLE VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS HITTING EFFIGY WITH STICKS VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS IN VEHICLES AND ON FOOT MARCHING WITH FLAGS OF AZAD KASHMIR (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER SAYING: "The eyes of 200 million Pakistanis and the eyes of 20 million Kashmiris are riveted on the United Nations General Assembly. And God willing, my prime minister will win the case of Kashmir there." VARIOUS OF ARMED POLICE AROUND VENUE OF RALLY
- Embargoed: 11th October 2019 18:04
- Keywords: Pakistan Kashmir India Imran Khan Narendra Modi
- Location: LAHORE, PAKISTAN
- City: LAHORE, PAKISTAN
- Country: Pakistan
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001AYFOW93
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Pakistan's Lahore on Friday (September 27) to protest against India's treatment of Kashmir as Prime Minister Imran Khan spoke to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly.
Irate protesters marched with Azad Kashmir flags and chanted, while others used sticks to beat an effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The protest coincided with Khan delivering an address to the U.N. General Assembly, where he warned there would be a bloodbath when India lifts its curfew in Kashmir and that any all-out conflict between the two nuclear-armed nations would reverberate far beyond their borders.
In its clampdown in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir, which has a Muslim majority, India flooded the territory - already one of the world's most militarized zones - with troops.
It imposed severe restrictions on movements and cut all telephone, mobile phone and internet connections. Thousands of people were arrested.
New Delhi has since eased some of the curbs, although no prominent detainees have been freed and mobile and internet connections remain suspended.
Muslim-majority Kashmir has long been a flashpoint between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. Both countries rule parts of Kashmir while claiming it in full. Two of the three wars they have fought have been over it.
In New York, U.S. President Donald Trump met separately with both Modi and Khan on the sidelines in a bid to help improve relations between the two nations.
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