Srinagar, December 18, 2019 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, the Indian atrocities since 1947 have rendered over 3.5 million Kashmiris migrants. A report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of International Migrants Day, today, revealed that a big number of the Kashmiri refugees lived in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, UK, US, Canada and other countries.
The report said that the unabated Indian state terrorism during the last thirty years had forced over forty thousand Kashmiris to migrate and live outside the territory as refugees and migrants. These Kashmiris live in different refugee camps in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan.
The report said that at least 40401 of the migrant Kashmiris were living in migrant camps set up in different cities and towns of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. It added that of those migrants, 27,260 were living in Muzaffarabad, 6,805 in Bagh, 5,393 in Kotli, 805 in Mirpur and 138 in Rawalakot.
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