Situation on The Ground: On August 5th, 2019, all communications were cut off in Kashmir Valley, Jammu and Kashmir (J-&-K) leaving residents under indefinite curfew, as the autonomous status of Kashmir Valley was revoked. Kashmir remains on lockdown with blocked internet and communication.
Independent journalists are reporting of restricting movement and shortage of healthcare facilities, in what is now being categorized as an ‘open air prison’.
AL Jazeera News is reporting the people of Kashmir Valley J-&-K are under the nastiest lockdown seen in years, while more than 20,000 people living in Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) on Pakistan side along the deeply militarized LOC, are migrating to safer places inland as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in AJK.