Day: September 5, 2020

Srinagar, September 05, 2020 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, unrelenting military siege imposed by Narendra Modi-led fascist Indian government since August 05, 2019, has made the life a hell for the residents of the territory.

A report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service on the completion of 13 months to the military siege, today, revealed that Indian troops martyred 237 Kashmiris including 5 women during the period. It said that most of the victims were killed by the troops in fake encounters during cordon and search operations in the length and breadth of the territory. It said youth are picked up from their homes and then eliminated after falsely labelled as mujahideen or over-ground workers of mujahid organizations. It said that the killings by the troops during the last 13 months rendered 9 women widowed and 22 children orphaned.

The report maintained that at least 1,482 people were critically injured due to the use of brute force by Indian troops on peaceful demonstrators in the territory. “The troops damaged over 954 houses and structures and molested or disgraced 89 women and arrested 13,936 including aged woman and girls during cordon and search operations across the occupied territory in the period,” it said.

The report said that the daily life of the Kashmiris has been made miserable since New Delhi illegally abrogated special status of IIOJK on August 05, 2019. The move, it added, was aimed at snatching away the identity of the Kashmiris through changing the Muslim-majority status of the occupied territory into a minority.

The report pointed out that as the entire occupied territory has been turned into an open-air prison, thousands of Hurriyat leaders, political and human rights activists, religious heads, journalists, businessmen, lawyers, civil society members, youth and activists were arrested after or before 5th August 2019 and they still remained lodged in Tihar and other jails of India and Kashmir.

“Prominent among them are Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Masarrat Aalam Butt, Aasiya Andrabi, Naheeda Nasreen, Fehmeeda Sofi, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Ayaz Muhammad Akbar, Altaf Ahmed Shah, Peer Saifullah, Merajuddin Kalwal, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Dr Abdul Hameed Fayaz, Maulana Mushtaq Veeri, Farooq Ahmed Tawheedi, Ameer Hamza, Abdul Samad Inqilabi, Abdul Ahad Parra, Muhammad Yousuf Mir, Muhammad Rafiq Ganai, Feroz Ahmed Khan, Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Zahoor Watali, Syed Shahid Yousuf, Syed Shakeel Yousuf, Maulana Sarjan Barkati, Bashir Ahmed Querishi, Hayat Ahmed Butt and Aasif Sultan,” it added.

The report said that senior Hurriyat leaders, Syed Ali Gilani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, continued to remain under house detention in Srinagar. It said at least, 1500 people have been detained under black law, Public Safety Act. The continued ban on high-speed internet has deprived the Kashmiris of useful local and world information regarding education, business, and coronavirus, the report said. India had snapped the 4G internet service in IIOJK on August 05, 2019.

The report pointed out that Narendra Modi-led fascist regime is engaged in changing the Muslim majority status of the occupied territory. For this purpose, it has granted domicile certificates to thousands of Indians, it added. The report said that Indian plans to change IIOJK demography was aimed at affecting the results in New Delhi’s favour if a plebiscite was held in Jammu and Kashmir at any point of time in future. It said the Kashmiris are committed to resist Indian plans to change demographic composition of the territory.

The report deplored that press freedom is under a constant threat in IIOJK where journalists are detained and harassed. The report pointed out that fascist Modi cannot silence the Kashmiris cry for freedom through the ongoing military siege as they are determined to keep fighting for freedom from Indian yoke. The report said that the international community must press India to end its military siege in IIOJK to mitigate the sufferings of the oppressed Kashmiris.

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Islamabad, September 05, 2020 (PPI-OT): Saudi Arabia-based Kashmiri scholar, Abdul Majeed Butt, passed away in Riyadh, today, after a protracted illness. He was 66. Abdul Majeed Butt had been facing respiratory problems, was admitted to a hospital and remained in coma for two months.

The deceased belonged to an educated family of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and was associated with Jamaat-e-Islami. He had played a leading role in the ongoing Kashmir freedom movement. The deceased was the brother of Hurriyat-AJK leader, Manzoor-ul-Haq Butt. Meanwhile, a large number of people rushed to the residence of Manzoor-ul-Haq Butt in Islamabad to condole the sad demise of his brother.

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Srinagar, September 05, 2020 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian troops launched a cordon and search operation in Kupwara district, today. The troops cordoned off Dana Behak, Warnow area of the district and launched searches. The operation continued till last reports came in.

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Srinagar, September 05, 2020 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Islami Tanzeem-e-Azadi has strongly condemned the re-arrest of party Chairman, Abdul Samad Inqalabi, soon after his release from Srinagar Central Jail on court orders.

Islami Tanzeem-e-Azadi spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar said that the court had ordered the release of Abdul Samad Inqalabi after quashing his illegal detention under the black law Public Safety Act (PSA). However, he said that Inqilabi was re-arrested from the premises of Srinagar Central Jail immediately after his release.

The spokesman said that Indian police had arrested Abdul Samad Inqalabi after he attended a ceremony held on the first martyrdom anniversary of popular youth leader, Burhan Muzaffar Wani, on July 08, 2017. He said that the party Chairman was later booked under draconian PSA.

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Srinagar, September 05, 2020 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian police have arrested three innocent youth in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. The police arrested the youth identified as Aabid Parvaiz, Javaid Hassan Ittoo and Jan Nissar Khaliq from a check point in Pattan area of the district. The police labeled the arrested youth as over-ground workers of a mujahid organization.

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New Delhi, September 05, 2020 (PPI-OT): Indian Army Chief, General MM Naravane, has admitted that the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh is “delicate and serious”. Indian Army quoted General MM Naravane at the end of his two-day visit to Ladakh as having said that the Indian Army had undertaken precautionary deployment in some areas.

“The situation along the LAC is tense. We have undertaken precautionary deployment in some areas,” he said. Indian and Chinese troops are engaged in a bitter standoff in multiple places along the LAC. At least 20 Indian troops were killed and 76 others injured in a severe clash between the Chinese and Indian soldiers on the night of June 15, this year, in Galwan Valley in Ladakh. Tensions flared in the sensitive Ladakh sector after fresh clashes near Pangong Tso on the intervening night of 29 and 30 August as well as on 31 August.

Meanwhile, Indian Foreign Secretary, Harsh V. Shringla, while virtually addressing the Indian Council of World Affairs said that the ongoing tension between India and China at the LAC in Ladakh was the “most serious challenge” and similar to what both sides faced in 1962.

“We have had an unprecedented situation on the India-China border. We’ve never had this situation since 1962. We never lost lives in the last 40 years. It is an unprecedented situation,” Shringla said. In 1962, China and India had fought a war that continued for about a month after which China declared a unilateral ceasefire.

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Islamabad, September 05, 2020 (PPI-OT):The Convener of Azad Jammu and Kashmir chapter of Mirwaiz-led Hurriyat forum, Syed Faiz Naqshbandi, has strongly condemned demographic changes and the killing of innocent people by Indian troops in illegally occupied Kashmir. Syed Faiz Naqshbandi in a statement issued in Islamabad said that India would not succeed to suppress the Kashmiris’ resolve for freedom through brutal tactics. He added that the liberation movement would be taken to its logical conclusion at all costs.

He maintained that peace and stability in the South Asia was linked to the peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute. Syed Faiz Naqshbandi also paid glowing tributes to the martyrs of September 6, 1965 and said that the Defence Day was one of the proudest moments for Pakistan as a nation which was built on the basic elements of love, brotherhood and fraternity. He praised the services of Pakistani forces for safeguarding ideological and territorial borders of the country.

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