ISLAMABAD – Leading international daily the Washington Post says groundsituation in Occupied Kashmir contradicts the Indian official stance ofnormalcy in the territory.

In its special report, the paper notes that while the Indian government andstate police officials say the region is calm, videos from the ground andeyewitness reports tell a completely different and indeed a bleak story.

The paper elucidates that because of communications shutdown, photos andvideo from the ground are hard to come by, but the paper`s Fact Checkerteam finds visuals which dispute the government`s claims that no protestshave taken place and that there is peace in the territory.

The visuals obtained by the Paper show civilians protesting and Indianforces using tear gas and firing to disperse them.