The Indian Medical Association (IMA) alleged and protest that British medical journal The Lancet has interfered with India’s internal matters by commenting on Kashmir in its recent editorial piece. The 187-year-old medical weekly, in an editorial on August 17, flagged possible health impacts on the people of Kashmir in the wake of lockdown imposed there. Kashmir witnessed lockdown after the government, on August 5, repealed provisions under Article 370 which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir and limited Parliament's power to make laws concerning the state.
The Lancet has “no locus standi on the issue of Kashmir”, the IMA wrote in a letter to the journal’s editor-in-chief, Richard Horton. “It is amounting to interference into an internal matter of Union of India. The Lancet has reacted to an internal administrative decision of Government of India under the garb of concern for…
