{"id":467,"date":"2019-08-08T09:18:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T03:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meromauka.com\/news\/?p=467"},"modified":"2019-08-08T09:18:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T03:33:42","slug":"hundreds-of-poor-migrant-workers-flee-kashmir-under-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meromauka.com\/news\/hundreds-of-poor-migrant-workers-flee-kashmir-under-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of poor migrant workers flee Kashmir under lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>JAMMU:<\/strong>&nbsp;Hit by a complete security lockdown in Kashmir, hundreds of poor migrant workers have begun fleeing the Himalayan region to return to their far-away villages in northern and eastern India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some complained on Wednesday that their Kashmiri employers didn\u2019t pay them any salary as security forces began imposing tight travel restrictions over the weekend and asked them to leave their jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities in Hindu-majority India clamped a complete shutdown on Kashmir as they scrapped the Muslim-majority state\u2019s special status, including exclusive hereditary rights and a separate constitution, and divided it into two territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kashmir region is divided between India and Pakistan and is claimed by both. The two nuclear-armed neighbors have fought three wars, two of them over control of Kashmir, since they won independence from British colonialists in 1947.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan announced Wednesday that it is downgrading its diplomatic ties with India and suspending bilateral trade in response to New Delhi\u2019s decision to reduce Kashmir\u2019s special status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, workers crowded the railroad station at Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir state, as they waited for trains bound for Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand. They carried their belongings on their heads and under their arms, tied in bedsheets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jagdish Mathur, a worker, said many people walked for miles (kilometers) on a highway and hitched rides on army trucks and buses from Srinagar to Jammu, a distance of 260 kilometers (160 miles).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t eaten properly for the past four days,\u201d said Mathur, adding that he doesn\u2019t have money to buy a rail ticket to take him to his village in eastern Bihar state. \u201cThe government should help me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surjit Singh, a carpenter, told the New Delhi television channel that he was returning home because of Kashmir\u2019s security lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every year, tens of thousands of people travel to Kashmir from various Indian states looking for work, mainly masonry, carpentry and agriculture. Whenever the security situation deteriorates, they return homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Insurgent groups have been fighting for Kashmir\u2019s independence from India or its merger with Pakistan since 1989. India accuses Pakistan of arming and training the rebels, a charge Pakistan denies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMMU:&nbsp;Hit by a complete security lockdown in Kashmir, hundreds of poor migrant workers have begun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-news","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hundreds of poor migrant workers flee Kashmir under lockdown | Buy sell anything in Nepal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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