Daily Times

Prime Minister Imran Khan Sunday said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-inspired extremist doctrine was very clear on Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K) where Kashmiris were being subjected to worst human rights violations and deprived of their right to self-determination as guaranteed by the United Nations Security Council.

In series of tweets, the prime minister mentioned the relentless oppressive and inhuman tactics Modi’s government was pursuing in IOJ&K through illegal annexation and brutal use of force.

“Modi’s RSS-inspired doctrine on IOJK very clear: First, deprive Kashmiris of their right of self-determination by illegal annexation of an Occupied territory. Second, treat them as less than human by a three-pronged approach: one, trying to crush them with brute force incl (including) using inhumane weapons like pellet guns against women & children; two, imposing an inhumane lockdown depriving Kashmiris of basic necessities from food to medicines; & three, by mass arrests of Kashmiris esp (especially) youth & isolating IOJK from the world by cutting off all communication links.”

The prime minister once again reminded the world community that India was trying to paint Kashmiris’ just struggle for self-determination as terrorism and by levelling false allegations against Pakistan, which could be used as pretext to launch false flag operation against Pakistan to divert world’s attention from state sponsored terrorism in IOJ&K being perpetrated by the Modi government.

“Third, by trying to show Kashmiris’ right to struggle for self-determination guaranteed in UNSC Resolutions as terrorism being abetted by Pakistan – to create opp (opportunity) for a false flag operation against Pak while detracting world attention away from Indian state terrorism in IOJK,” he said.

Meanwhile, Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred two Kashmiri youth during a cordon and search operation in Doda district of Jammu region on Sunday. Indian Army claimed that the youth were killed during an encounter with the troops in Gundana area of Doda town. An Indian soldier was also killed in an attack during the operation in the same area. In another incident, an Indian policeman was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Yaripora area of Kulgam district.

Meanwhile, hundreds of people including women and children were forced to spend the whole night in the open during an 18-hour-long cordon and search operation by Indian troops in south Kashmir’s Islamabad district.

Contingents of Indian Army, Special Operations Group and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force drove in armoured vehicles to Islamabad and laid a siege around Lal Chowk area of the town. The troops during door-to-door search operations subjected inmates to brutal torture.

Senior APHC leader and Chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir Ashraf Sahrai, in a statement issued in Srinagar, reiterated that his party would continue to work for a broad-based unity for the freedom cause. He said that Tehreek-e-Hurriyat was not just an organization but a revolutionary movement which was working for the glory of Islam, freedom of Kashmir from India’s forcible occupation and unity.

Jammu and Kashmir Youth Social Forum Chairman Umar Adil Dar, in a statement issued in Srinagar, demanded the release of all illegally detained Hurriyat leaders and activists from Indian jails before Eidul Fitr.

On the other hand, the authorities of a private engineering college at Dehradun in Uttarakhand state of India suspended a Kashmiri girl student over her alleged social media posts. The decision was made despite the college deputy registrar, Dinesh Agarwal, admitted that the girl had denied the allegations saying that the ID shown in the post did not belong to her.