The blackout was not temporary. It continued, full-scale, from early August 2019 until late January 2020. … During that horrific six-month stretch, India suspended landline and cell phone connections and internet services, and it flooded Kashmir with nearly a million troops.

QUESTION: What precipitated this blackout and what were its broader legal and political consequences for the region?

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 514