IbneBattuta, a blogger from Kashmir, wrote

The tourism economy in the Kashmir valley was worst hit.

With social media banned, Kashmiris turn to local platform KashBook

There exists, ambitious souls in the mountains of Kashmir.

This kind of treatment is not uncommon in the Kashmir valley.

This is handled by Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education (abbreviated as JKBOSE).

Amnesty International called the detention a shameful attempt to suppress a peaceful dissenting voice from Kashmir.

There has been no mobile internet in Indian administered Kashmir for nearly two months.

Afghanistan is a prime example, as is the failure to settle the Kashmir imbroglio with India.

In foreign policy as well, both countries reputations are burdened with the problems of longstanding disputes over Taiwan and Kashmir.

This is not the only such video to have emerged in the last month or so from Kashmir.

Influential political parties include the Jammu Kashmir National Conference (NC), the Indian National Congress (INC), the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party (PDP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other smaller regional parties.

But what will happen to this traumatized and humiliated young shawl weaver in a forgotten corner of Kashmir?

The three stripes represent the three distinct administrative divisions of the state, namely Jammu, Valley of Kashmir, and Ladakh.

At the time of writing, Kashmir valley is in its 107th day of protests and curfew.

The youngest C. lupus lineage in India is represented by C. l. chanco (native to the northwestern Himalayan region of Kashmir), which originated 150,000 years ago.

A local social network called KashBook has spiked in popularity in the Kashmir Valley where the Indian government has banned dozens of social networks, including Facebook.

India granted Pakistan MFN status in 1996, but Pakistan held back, hoping to win concessions from India on the unresolved issue of Kashmir.

After the continued neglect by India of the Kashmiri demand for UN mandated self determination, in 1989 a popular armed struggle broke out in the region.

Tourism in the Kashmir valley has rebounded in recent years, and in 2009, the state became one of the top tourist destinations of India.

The imperatives are clear first, the army must accept that the social and economic needs of Pakistan's people come first and that it must be downsized to live within Pakistan's means.

A settlement over Kashmir is the key to stability in Afghanistan, which would then no longer be a strategic playground for India and Pakistan.

In fact, it was even involved in rescue operations on the Pakistani side of Kashmir after the devastating 2005 earthquake there.

Second, the army must focus upon defending Pakistan's frontiers while accepting that there can be only a political, not a military, solution for Kashmir.

Initially, Khurram was put into a ten day remand, and without formal notification, was in the middle of the night whisked off to a remote sub jail in remote North Kashmir.

It has fought off Muslim terrorists in Kashmir, Sikh terrorists in Punjab, Christian terrorists in Nagaland, and Hindu terrorists in Assam and across the country.

A taped speech by the released head of the Lashkar i Tayyaba, Hafiz Saeed, was played on Kashmir Day at mosques in Rawalpindi.

This is undoubtedly why the Pakistani government refused an Indian offer to send in helicopters for relief work in and around Muzaffarabad, the flattened capital of Pakistani administered Kashmir.

Moreover, China abruptly shortened the length of its border with India by rescinding its recognition of the 1,597 kilometer (992 mile) line separating Indian Kashmir from Chinese held Kashmir.

To get to zero in this region, the conflict over Kashmir must be resolved, and India must cease being perceived by Pakistan as a threat.

The violence between India s security forces and generations of mainly young men in Indian administered Kashmir has been ebbing and flowing for nearly seven decades.

The dispute over Kashmir had occupied the minds of military planners throughout Pakistan s history, and war had been the raison d etre for maintaining the world s eighth largest standing army.

Zenith Irfan defied Pakistani social boundaries and set off to honor her father's legacy by taking a motorcycle trip across Pakistan from Lahore to Kashmir.

The report on mass graves was an unprecedented work that Khurram spearheaded and which brought international attention to the human rights abuses in the Kashmir valley.

This is a horrid tale of a 26 year old shawl weaver from the Indian administered territory of Kashmir, who was tied to the hood of an Indian military vehicle as it patrolled villages on a recent voting day.

Some Kashmiris would prefer to join Pakistan, a country that already controls a large chunk of Kashmir across a disputed, battle scarred line of control (a tiny, eastern corner is claimed by China).

The Chinese say that some of their troops are present in Pakistan because of another sort of overflowing, of which there has been a great deal in this part of Kashmir and in the rest of Pakistan.

India responded with brutal counterinsurgency measures, imposing the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), which gives Indian troops immense powers over the life, liberty and property of Kashmiris.

Likewise, prior to Premier Wen Jiabao s trip to India in 2010, China began issuing visas on loose sheets of paper stapled into the passports of Kashmir residents applying to enter China an indirect challenge to India s sovereignty.

In between writing books on Modern Islam and Kashmiri independence, Nana Jaan cried unapologetically for his family in Indian ruled Kashmir, family he wasn t allowed to embrace in half a century.

The establishment of a Palestinian state will not be enough for those terrorists who want to see the elimination of the Jewish state, any more than reaching a compromise over Kashmir will satisfy those Pakistan based terrorists with bigger agendas vis à vis India.

Those personnel are enabled further by laws like the Armed Forces (Jammu and Kashmir) Special Powers Act (1990) and the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (1978).

Pakistan does not have border agreements with either India, with whom it disputes the incorporation of Kashmir, or Afghanistan, which has never explicitly recognized the Durand Line, the frontier between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

In the East, a large number of Chinese troops have entered Pakistani held territory high in the mountain fastness of the Kashmir Karakorams, in the picturesque Gilgit Baltistan region, not far from the glacial battlefield of Siachen, where India and Pakistan confront each other.

In the UK there are around half a million people of Kashmiri origin, yet the subject of Kashmir rarely comes up in the media or parliament, besides the odd question from an MP with a large Kashmiri population in his constituency.