By Sardar Khan Niazi
In occupied Jammu and Kashmir, which is a heavily militarized valley, Indian troops in their unabated acts of state terrorism have continued to martyr the Kashmiris. During the last month of November, they martyred twelve Kashmiris. According to the latest data, of those killed five were martyred in fake encounters and in custody.
In order to pay rich tribute to Kashmiris and vow to keep standing by them in their just struggle people of Pakistan continue to hold rallies to condemn India’s breach of the pledge at the UN to hold a plebiscite.
Indian human rights abuses in IIOJK, Indian troops, paramilitary and police personnel arrested 78 people, mostly youth, activists, students, and a woman under black laws Public Safety Act and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in 190 cordons and search operations in the territory.
Indian Police raided the houses of several journalists in an investigation of anonymous online threats to around a dozen journalists in India-occupied Kashmir, a top police official told the media. They blamed the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Resistance Front for the threats.
Indian Police last week registered a case under an anti-terrorism law after anonymous online threats were posted against a dozen journalists in Kashmir.
Online posts — accusing journalists of being collaborators with Indian security agencies — threatened employees of three Kashmir-based, Delhi-backed, Indian army-sponsored media houses for spreading fake narratives.
Five journalists affiliated with these organizations resigned after threats, leading to panic among others, local journalists said. Local journalist Sajjad Ahmad Kralyari was detained for questioning during the raid, and his laptop, camera, and cellphone were seized, the official told the foreign media on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to media.
The raids were at the houses of half a dozen journalists — including writer and author Gouhar Geelani, the official said. Geelani, Kralyari, and the other journalists could not be reached for comment by the media as their phones were switched off.
The searches were conducted at 10 locations in Srinagar, Anantnag, and Kulgam in connection with the investigation of the case related to recent threats to journalists,” the official said.
They also raided the house of a lawyer who has been representing defendants in anti-militancy cases. India is a fraud democracy, it is an emulative democracy and history tells us, foreign occupation never lasts.
Indian forces are scared of the educated, but they do not know what fate lies ahead for them. They make up fake threats to be able to harass people that speak up against their brutality.
What else one can expect from Modi’s fascist regime? Illegal Indian occupation of Kashmir must end for peace and prosperity in the region. How long will India continue to test Kashmiris’ courage and resilience they have shown in standing up to its occupation forces over the last seventy-five years?
The international community remembers very well that on Oct 27, 1947, India landed its troops in Srinagar on the premise of an Instrument of Accession purportedly signed by the then-Hindu ruler of the princely state a day earlier after virtually losing authority in the face of a popular public revolt against the autocracy.
India occupied a large part of the valley and took the issue to the United Nations where it pledged to refer to the will of the Kashmiris through a free, fair, and impartial plebiscite under the auspices of the world body. However, India did not keep the promise, which is why Kashmiris across the globe mark October 27 as Black Day.
The time has come for the world to take note of human right violation and killings of Muslims by Indian terrorist forces. The world’s most brutal inhumane foreign occupation in the history of humankind.
