Srinagar, June 19 (KMS): Kashmiri women are the worst victims of Indian forces’ barbarities in occupied Jammu and Kashmir as New Delhi is using rape as a weapon of war to suppress the Kashmiris’ struggle for right to self-determination.
A report released by Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, today, revealed that Indian troops had sexually assaulted over 11,259 women during the past 34 years in the occupied territory. It said like Kunanposhpora mass rape, Shopian double rape and murder, and rape and murder of a minor girl in Kathua depict the brutal face of Indian forces in the occupied territory. Around a hundred women were gang-raped by Indian troops during a cordon and search operation in Kunanposhpora area of Kupwara district on the night of February 23, 1991. Two women, Aasiya and Neelofar of Shopian, were abducted by Indian men in uniform on May 29, 2009, gang-raped and subsequently killed in custody. An 8-year-old Muslim girl, Aasifa Bano was repeatedly gang raped by Indian policemen and communal Hindus in Kathua area of Jammu in January 2018. So far, not a single Indian soldier or policeman involved in such heinous crimes have been punished.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people thronged the ‘Martyrs Graveyard’ of Islamabad to offer tributes to Qazi Nisar Ahmed on his martyrdom anniversary, today, to offer Fateha for the departed soul. Hurriyat leaders and organizations, including Qazi Yasir, Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party, Jammu and Kashmir Political Resistance Movement, Jammu and Kashmir Youth Social Forum, Jammu Kashmir Peoples Resistance Party and Jammu Kashmir Democratic Movement in their separate statements in Srinagar paid rich tributes to the martyred leader. Qazi Nisar was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at Dialgam in Islamabad on June 19 in 1994.
The attempt by the Modi government to hide its crimes and project its so-called normalcy narrative in occupied Jammu and Kashmir has fallen flat after its handpicked delegation of retired judges and top jurists postponed Srinagar visit citing security threat. The delegation led by President of London-based International Council of Jurists Adish C. Aggarwala that arrived in Jammu refused to proceed to Srinagar.
Congress Working President Raman Bhalla interacting with people in Jammu said the BJP regime has left people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir in complete despair with outsiders ruling the roost and locals deprived of their jobs
On the other hand, Iltija Javed, daughter of Mehbooba Mufti, has moved the High Court of occupied Jammu and Kashmir against the issuance of a conditional passport that restricts the scope of her travel abroad. As per the condition prescribed by the passport authorities, she can only travel to the United Arab Emirates. KMS