'We can’t live like this forever.' Kashmir residents are weary of a six-month lockdown that has left the region in political and economic limbo.
SRINAGAR, India—At the office of the National Conference, the oldest political party in Kashmir, the gates are locked, a lone security guard sitting outside. Its longtime rival, the Peoples Democratic Party, also shows little sign of life.
In the six months since India’s central government seized control of the troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir, bringing in troops, shutting down phone and internet services and detaining hundreds of people, life here has been on hold. The heads of both leading moderate parties remain in...
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