{"id":10497,"date":"2019-10-08T11:31:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T06:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=10497"},"modified":"2019-10-08T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T06:31:15","slug":"us-congress-committee-urges-india-to-lift-restriction-in-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/10497","title":{"rendered":"US Congress Committee Urges India to Lift Restriction in Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful US Congressional Committee, The House Foreign Affairs Committee,\u00a0 has urged India to lift restrictions on Kashmir as it impacts their daily lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India&#8217;s communication blackout in Kashmir is having a devastating impact on the lives and welfare of everyday Kashmiris,&#8221; the tweet said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s time for India to lift these restrictions and afford Kashmiris the same rights and privileges as any other Indian citizen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kamala Harris, a major Democratic candidate for the 2020 US presidential election, also\u00a0 raised voice for oppressed people of Indian\u00a0 occupied Kashmir.\u00a0 by saying\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWe have to remind the Kashmiris that they are not alone in the world,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are keeping a track on the situation. There is a need to intervene if the situation demands,\u201d she added. Her comments are even more significant because she is of Indian descent from her mother\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>So far, three major presidential candidates have spoken on Kashmir \u2014 Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris. All three are members of the US Senate and have strong chances of being on the Democratic ticket for 2020, which may have two names from this list, one for president and the other for vice president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful US Congressional Committee, The House Foreign Affairs Committee,\u00a0 has urged India to lift restrictions on Kashmir as it impacts their daily lives. &#8220;India&#8217;s communication blackout in Kashmir is having a devastating impact on the lives and welfare of everyday Kashmiris,&#8221; the tweet said. &#8220;It&#8217;s time for India to lift these restrictions and afford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1467,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kashmir","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10498,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497\/revisions\/10498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}