Srinagar, In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, 2,352 women were among 96,275 civilians martyred due to the unabated acts of state terrorism by Indian troops during the last 34 years.
According to Kashmir Media Service, on the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, said that Indian troops molested 11,259 women during the period. It maintained that the Kashmiri women have been the worst victims of the harrowing conflict, which rendered 22,967 women widowed since 1989. The report pointed out that Indian troops were using the rape of women as a weapon of war in IIOJK to suppress the Kashmiris’ just struggle for right to self-determination. The report said over two dozen women including Hurriyat leader Aasiya Andrabi are under illegal detention in New Delhi’s infamous Tihar jail and other prisons in India and IIOJK for the past over five years.
The APHC leaders including Khawaja Firdous, Syed Bashir Andrabi, Muhammad Shafi Lone, Yasmeen Raja, Zamruda Habib, Fayyaz Hussain Jafari and Syed Sibte Shabbir Qummi in their statements in Srinagar in connection with the day said that the women were the worst victims of Indian state terrorism in occupied Kashmir. However, they said that Indian atrocities have failed to intimidate the Kashmiri women and they continue to play an important role in the ongoing freedom movement.
On the other hand, the New Delhi-controlled State Investigation Agency arrested the wife of illegally detained senior All Parties Hurriyat Conference leader and noted religious cleric, Maulana Sarjan Barkati, in Shopian district. The SIA sleuths arrested Maulana Sarjan Barkati’s wife Sabroza Bano after raiding their house in the Reban area of the district in a false case. They are being victimized for their affiliation with the ongoing freedom movement. Indian police had arrested Maulana Sarjan Barkati in August this year. He is presently lodged in Srinagar Central Jail.
Indian police arrested three innocent Kashmiri youth in Badgam district. The police dubbed the youth as over-ground workers of a mujahid organization to justify their illegal detention.
National Conference Vice President, Omar Abdullah, talking to reporters in Bandipore criticised the claims of normalcy in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, dismissing them as a mere prank.