Narendra Modi-led Indian government as part of its nefarious attempts to suppress the Kashmiris’ ongoing freedom struggle and intimidate them into submission has deployed more paramilitary troops in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Modi regime has deployed two additional battalions of Central Reserve Police Force in Rajouri and Poonch districts of Jammu region. A few months ago, India had deployed 18 additional companies of CRPF in these districts. These troops are in addition to the hundreds of thousands of Indian forces’ personnel deployed in every nook and corner of the occupied territory.
Meanwhile, Indian army, paramilitary and police personnel and sleuths of dreaded National Investigation Agency and State Investigation Agency continued their cordon and search operations and house raids in Srinagar, Baramulla, Bandipore, Islamabad, Pulwama, Kulgam, Shopian, Kishtwar, Rajouri, Poonch, Kathua and Reasi districts of the occupied territory. The residents of many areas told the media that the forces’ personnel have made their life a hell as they barge into their homes again and again, terrorize the inmates and take away household goods.
The All Parties Hurriyat Conference leaders including Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori, Muhammad Saleem Zargar, Farida Bahenji, Yasmeen Raja and Mir Shahid Saleem in their statements issued in Srinagar said the Indian atrocities cannot force the Kashmiris to give up their just demand of right to self-determination. They maintained that the Kashmiri people will continue their struggle till the Kashmiri dispute is settled in accordance with their aspirations and the relevant UN resolutions.
The working President of Indian National Congress in occupied Kashmir, Raman Bhalla, addressing a function in Jammu said that the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party was destroying the identity, status, and rights of the Kashmiri people.
A rally was held in Srinagar in connection with Eid Milad-ul-Nabi (PBUH), today. The rally was led by APHC leader, Imtiaz Rishi, and was participated by a large number of people and madrassa students.
On the other hand, speakers at a seminar in Geneva said that India’s settler colonial project in occupied Kashmir posed a serious threat to the existence of the Kashmiris. The speakers included international law experts, academicians, rights activists and parliamentarians like Senator Naela Chohan, Dr Imtiyaz Khan, Robert Fantina, Prof. Dr Syed Manwar Hussain, Dr Waleed Rasool, Syed Muhammad Ali, Altaf Hussain Wani and Advocate Parvez Ahmed.
Representatives of Kashmiri diaspora at a meeting in Woodbridge Township in the American state of New Jersey, urged India to rescind demographic changes in IIOJK, repeal all draconian laws in the occupied territory and release all illegally detained Kashmiris unconditionally. The meeting was attended among others by Aftab Shah, Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, Sardar Sawar Khan, Sardar Zarif Khan, Sardar Zulfiqar Roshan Khan and Sardar Zubair Khan.
