Kashmir: The Continuing Conflict

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Indian-administered Kashmir has been living through some of the worst violence for years. It is a dispute that goes back almost seventy years, and the latest trouble follows the recent killing of Burhan Wani, a 22 year old militant with a huge social media following. Mobile communications have been cut, landlines are unreliable, and contact with the local BBC reporter has been intermittent. But BBC Urdu presenter Aliya Nazki, herself from Kashmir, has been following developments closely. World Nomad Games Dead goat polo, hunting with eagles, building yurts against the clock - it must be the World Nomad Games! Gulnara Kasmambet of BBC Kyrgyz has been covering the games in her home country, and she shares her personal highlights with the Fifth Floor. The Kenyan band fighting domestic violence Award-winning Kenyan urban Afro band Elani have released a single calling on women to take a stand against abuse in relationships. The song, and the accompanying graphic video, is called 'sirudi', meaning 'I am not coming back' in Swahili, and they have had a huge impact on social media. BBC Africa's Anthony Irungu and Sophie Ikenye from Focus on Africa discuss the band and the issue. Behind the ghoonghat BBC Hindi's Sumiran Preet Kaur takes the Fifth Floor on a journey from the bright lights of New Delhi to the rural village Mirzapur in Haryana. There she meets a group of women campaigning to live their lives without wearing the ghoonghat, a traditional veil worn by Indian women for centuries. A Soap for Syria Can you change hearts and minds in a conflict through a soap opera? Even one as bitter and traumatic as Syria's civil war? BBC Media Action and BBC Arabic are giving it a try - with a new radio drama call Hay El Matar, Airport District. The drama aims to humanise people seen as other, or different, or on the other side - whether Shia, Sunni, Christian or Alawite. BBC Arabic's Lina Sinjab, who's from Syria, told the Fifth Floor about the drama, and the associated discussion programme which she produces. And Fifi Haroon's pick of weird and wonderful stories from across the world wide web. Photo: Kashmiri protestors clash with Indian government forces during a protest against civilian killings in Srinagar, Kashmir. Credit: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images.