{"id":39677,"date":"2021-08-19T18:16:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=39677"},"modified":"2021-08-19T18:16:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:46:01","slug":"kashmir-is-a-separate-country-navjot-sidhus-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=39677","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir is a Separate Country: Navjot Sidhu&#8217;s Advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Malvinder Singh Mali, advisor to Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, sparked a controversy when he claimed on Twitter that Kashmir was a separate country.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malvinder Singh Mali, one of four advisors to Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, on Wednesday claimed that Kashmir was a separate country and both India and Pakistan were illegal occupants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a tweet, Malvinder Singh Mali wrote, \u201cKashmir is a separate country and India and Pakistan are illegal occupants. It belongs to the people of Kashmir.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tweet has attracted criticism from various quarters, both within and outside the Congress party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.republicworld.com\/republic-prod\/stories\/images\/1629351054611dec8ec17ba.jfif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malvinder Singh Mali, advisor to Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, sparked a controversy when he claimed on Twitter that Kashmir was a separate country. Malvinder Singh Mali, one of four advisors to Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, on Wednesday claimed that Kashmir was a separate country and both India and Pakistan were illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}