{"id":120,"date":"2025-06-06T20:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/indias-modi-opens-strategic-railway-in-contested-crown-jewel-kashmir\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T20:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:52:15","slug":"indias-modi-opens-strategic-railway-in-contested-crown-jewel-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/indias-modi-opens-strategic-railway-in-contested-crown-jewel-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Modi opens strategic railway in contested &#8216;crown jewel&#8217; Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">Srinagar, India &ndash; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first visit to Kashmir on Friday since a conflict with archrival Pakistan, opening a strategic railway line to the contested region he called &ldquo;the crown jewel of India.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Modi launched a string of projects worth billions of dollars for the divided Muslim-majority territory, the center of bitter rivalry between India and Pakistan since their independence from British rule in 1947.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan fought a four-day conflict last month, their worst standoff since 1999, before a ceasefire was agreed to on May 10.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>India&rsquo;s Modi opens strategic railway in contested &lsquo;crown jewel&rsquo; Kashmir<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, India &ndash; Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first visit to Kashmir on Friday since a conflict with archrival Pakistan, opening a strategic railway line to the contested region he called &ldquo;the crown jewel of India.&rdquo; Modi launched a string of projects worth billions of dollars for the divided Muslim-majority territory, the center of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/indias-modi-opens-strategic-railway-in-contested-crown-jewel-kashmir\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;India&#8217;s Modi opens strategic railway in contested &#8216;crown jewel&#8217; Kashmir&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}