Kashmir Solidarity Day Revisited

Kashmir Solidarity Day was observed on Sunday troops in Held Kashmir, who have martyred tens of thousands of Kashmiris, including women and children, through brutal tactics like fake encounters, while closure of mosques, shortage of foods, medicines for patients have further increased the plight of the Kashmiris. to hide human rights violations, communication services have been cut off and foreign journalists forbidden from entering the region. the Modi regime has intensified its plans, bringing demographic changes in Held Kashmir. In this context, India has amended the law, allowing Indian citizens to buy land in Held Kashmir , issued domicile certificates to over 80,0000 non-Kashmiris, and registered almost 2.5 million new non-local voters.. abuses which keep going on in Held Kashmir .

Indian forces have been also availing such draconian laws as Armed Forces special Powers Act (AFsPA), the Public safety Act (PsA) etc. in martyring the Kashmiri people, and for arbitrarily arresting any individual indefinitely.

A year after India abrogated the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, uN human rights experts on 4 August 2020 called on India and the international community to take urgent action to address the “alarming” human rights situation in Kashmir,“to investigate all cases of human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, torture and arbitrary detentions.” the Indian Constitution, which claims India is a secular state, was torn into pieces on 5 August 2019 when the extremist government revoked Articles 35A and 370, which gave a special status to Held Kashmir. the Indian government bifurcated Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories—Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, to be ruled by the federal government. On the same day, strict military lockdown was imposed in Held Kashmir, which continues unabated. since 1989, various forms of state terrorism have been part of a deliberate campaign by the Indian army and paramilitary forces against Muslim Kashmiris. It has been manifested in brutal tactics like crackdowns, curfews, illegal detentions, massacre, targeted killings, sieges, burning the houses, torture, disappearances, rape, breaking the legs, molestation of Muslim women and killings in fake encounters. the deployment of more than 900,000 military

Amnesty International also said on 29 september 2020 that it is “stopping its work in India because the government has frozen its bank accounts” on september 10 for highlighting rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir”. In the recent past, the uN security Council in its meetings has thrice reiterated that the Kashmir issue requires to be settled in accordance with the principles of the uN charter and the related security Council resolutions, as the world has refused to believe in the Indian story that its actions regarding Held Kashmir are its internal matter.

EvEryyear, Kashmir solidarity Day is observed on February 5 by people throughout Pakistan and Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK). Pakistan observes this very day to express country’s unwavering political, moral and diplomatic support to the just struggle of Kashmiri brethren, as enshrined in the uN Charter and relevant uN resolutions. the day is marked by public processions, seminars, protests and special prayers in mosques by people across Pakistan and AJK, which are carried out against the Indian oppression in the disputed territory of Held Kashmir and for its liberation.

In order to maintain its illegal control, India has continued its repressive regime in Held Kashmir through various machinations. showing complete disregard of the Constitution, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accelerated implementation of the Hindutva ideology.

In fact, the very tragedy of Kashmiris had started after 1947 when they were denied their genuine right of self-determination. they organized themselves against the injustices of India and launched a war of liberation which New Delhi tried to suppress through various forms of state terrorism.