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Students Rally in Pakistan-held Kashmir Against India

Associated Press

   MUZAFFARABAD, PAKISTAN - More than a thousand students have rallied in
   the capital of Pakistan-held Kashmir to denounce India's downgrading of
   the special status of the portion of the disputed region it controls.

   The demonstrators chanted ``We want freedom'' and denounced human
   rights violations in Indian-administrated Kashmir.

   Tuesday's rally in Muzaffarabad came a day after Pakistani Prime
   Minister Imran Khan vowed to globally highlight the issue of Kashmir.
   He will address the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 27.

   Tensions have soared between Pakistan and India since Aug. 5, when New
   Delhi revoked Muslim-majority Kashmir's decades-old semiautonomous
   status, touching off anger in Indian-controlled Kashmir and in
   Pakistan.

   Kashmir is split between archrivals Pakistan and India and claimed by
   both in its entirety.

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