In Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, occupation authorities have further intensified re-strictions in the garb of security for the ongoing Hindu pilgrimage, Amarnath Yatra. According to Kashmir Media Service, the Kashmiris will continue to face hardships in the name of raids, crackdowns, checking and frisking till yatra culminates on August 31.
The Modi government has deployed 60,000 ad-ditional paramilitary personnel across the territory to create an environment of fear and terror during these two months.
This deployment is in addition to tens of thou-sands of the troops already present in the territory.
Meanwhile, Indian troops launched a cordon and search operation in the Dabi Dharti area of Poonch district, today (Sunday).
Indian police arrested one innocent Kashmiri youth during a raid at Batmaloo Bus Stand in Srina-gar.
All Parties Hurriyat Conference leaders including Syed Bashir Andrabi, Khawaja Firdous, Abdul Samad Inqilabi and Mohammad Yousuf Naqash in their statements in Srinagar expressed concern over the increasing human rights violations by Indian troops in Kashmir.
They criticized the United Nations for its failure to enforce its own resolutions on the Kashmir dis-pute.
Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti has urged the visiting Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud to hear the petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370.
She also asked him to look into the issue of de-tention of innocent Kashmiri youth languishing in different jails. Meanwhile, speakers at a seminar in Geneva have expressed grave concern over the continued illegal detention of thousands of Kashmiri prisoners in prisons of Indian illegaly Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and India.
The seminar titled “Plight of Kashmir Prisoners” was held on the sidelines of the 53rd session of the UN Human Rights Council meeting.
The speakers said that thousands of Kashmiris who were arrested before and after 5th August 2019 are languishing in India’s notorious jails like Tihar, which has become a death trap for Kashmiris.—KMS
