Islamabad: Feb 14, 2022 (TNS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, local media have documented the decades-long conflict, but in recent months, stories critical of the Modi-led Indian government appear to have disappeared from digital archives, raising censorship concerns, said a report by Al Jazeera.
The Al Jazeera report cited Kashmiri journalists and said that their work is among thousands of news reports, many of them highlighting the human rights abuses by the Indian forces, that have gone missing from the digital archives of local newspapers.
It said Scope for media freedom has been fast-eroding in Kashmir, where journalists have been criminalised and newspaper advertising funding has been cut since the disputed region was stripped of its special status by India’s Hindu nationalist government in 2019.
