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India invites envoys on Kashmir tour that critics call a sham

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NEW DELHI — A group of foreign envoys are visiting Jammu and Kashmir, in India’s north, in what opposition leaders are slamming as a two-day “guided tour” and what analysts are describing as an exercise in image management by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi

The junket comes amid an international outcry over alleged human rights violations, the curtailment of civil liberties and the taking of political prisoners in Kashmir, according to Manish Chand, a foreign affairs analyst and CEO of India Writes Network. The envoys’ visit, he said, is part of a wider “image and perception management” campaign that the Modi government has kicked off in the face of international criticism.

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