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Authorities in occupied Kashmir are cracking down on virtual private network (VPN) applications used to circumvent a months-long ban on social media, police said, as part of a broader effort to quell unrest over the withdrawal of the region’s autonomy. Social networks such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are still blocked, even after the government restored limited mobile data service …

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