Month: November 2019

Yet again India faced international humiliation over Kashmir… Vijay Jolly, an intolerant BJP leader was thrown out of Asia Pacific Summit in Cambodia when he tried to storm the stage

Silence is not an option when the innocent and oppressed call out for help. That’s why I introduced H.Res. 724 to condemn the inhumane abuses in Jammu and Kashmir.

The resolution said that any changes to the status of Jammu and Kashmir must be made with the direct consultation of the Kashmiri people, who must play a central role in the determination of their future.

Kashmir is not an internal matter of India, speakers gathered at an international conference in the Turkish capital agreed on Wednesday.

Kashmir Turmoil: Emerging Threats to Peace and Role of International Community was co-hosted by Turkey’s Institute of Strategic Thinking and Pakistan’s Lahore Center for Peace Research.

Pakistan’s resolution reaffirming the right to self-determination for peoples who are subjected to the colonial, foreign and alien occupation was unanimously passed by the committee of the United Nations’ General Assembly.

Kashmiri and German human rights activists have called upon the world not to ignore the abuses committed by the India forces in occupied Kashmir, reported Kashmir Media Service.

Rights leaders Karl-Christian Hausmann of UPF, Patricia associated with a German human rights organisation, Dr Ishaq and Zafar Qureshi from London and Kashmir Council EU Chairman, Ali Raza Syed were addressing a conference titled, “The Alarming Humanitarian Crisis in Kashmir” on occasion of UN International Day for Tolerance in the city of Stuttgart.

104 days & one thing is clear. The voices that still are silenced in Kashmir are the ones we should hear (long ago)

Amid a divisive campaign that’s already been marred by accusations of antisemitism, the left-wing Labour Party has reportedly angered some British Hindu voters over its stance on the situation in Indian-administered Kashmir.

The families of juveniles being detained by the Jammu and Kashmir Police in Srinagar have alleged that authorities are not only picking up their children but are also making them pay for the meals that are served to their wards while in custody.

Today, November 12, marks the completion of 100 days of lockdown and shutdown in Kashmir following the dilution of Article 370 and bifurcation of the state on August 5. The state-enforced siege on the lives of the people of Kashmir began in the summer. It remains intact as the winter begins.