Every aspect of the life of the Muslims of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir has become the target of the Indian ruling party BJP.
In the year 2022, the Indian actions were aimed at disempowering the Muslim population by changing the demographic landscape of Kashmir and systematically eradicating the Kashmiri culture, language and religious identity.
People’s property was confiscated and laws were introduced to take land away from natives and give it to non-natives. There are restrictions on the media and journalists are being imprisoned and prevented from traveling abroad. Human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings and torture, continue unabated while the entire leadership of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference is under arrest. Apart from this, more paramilitary forces have been deployed in this most militarized region of the world.
We are all spectators. Be it Baghdad or Damascus, Afghanistan or Pakistan, Libya or Occupied Kashmir, the consciences of the Muslim world and the academic world have also become dead and their hearts turned to stone. Kashmir is the unfortunate region of the world, where 75 lakh people including human beings were bought and made slaves in Nanakshahi, then the minority ruled the majority through oppressive decision, the global claimants of justice always committed genocide of Kashmiris in the name of justice and Supported plans of destruction.
Kashmiris sacrificed many lakhs of soldiers for freedom, but due to the hypocrisy of international forces, this freedom war not only caused oppression and violence, Jannat Nazir Valley has become a picture of fear, despair and darkness as a military camp.
A more shocking example of oppression in Kashmir can hardly be seen anywhere in the world. Still, even those countries that claim to be leaders of human rights remain silent on this serious situation. In the meantime, Pakistan’s international efforts to expose Indian ambitions are also not very good as the country is suffering from several internal crises. Thus, Pakistan’s foreign policy regarding Kashmir is limited only to sending letters to the United Nations.
Although India’s oppressive occupation has continued in Occupied Kashmir for more than 7 decades, India’s unilateral move on August 5, 2019 has added a brutal chapter to Kashmir’s violent history.
The Indian government illegally annexed the state of Jammu and Kashmir, partitioned it and integrated it into the Indian Union. This is a clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions.
There are 11 such resolutions on Kashmir. Specifically, it was a violation of Security Council Resolution 38, paragraph 2 of which clearly states that no party to the conflict can bring about any material change in the situation in Kashmir.
The BJP government has taken various administrative, demographic and electoral measures to disempower Kashmiris, disenfranchise them and change Kashmir’s Muslim identity. Many of its actions are a copy of Israel’s settler policies in Occupied Palestine.
Thus, efforts to gain control of all the important religious places of Muslims including the shrines in the occupied valley began. Religious leaders and Islamic scholars were arrested and prayers were banned in mosques across Occupied Kashmir.
In Kashmir, Jamaat-e-Islami was banned in 2019, now in recent days, under the guise of cracking down on Jamaat-e-Islami, the authorities have confiscated property worth crores of rupees. It also includes the house that was once used by Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Geelani. Syed Ali Geelani died in 2021 and India did not even allow his formal funeral.
India’s policies of coercion and deception have long failed in Kashmir, further alienating the people and strengthening their spirit of resistance. This is why there is little chance of a different situation arising in the future.
