Month: December 2019

On Human Rights day we must appeal to the world’s conscience, to upholders of international law & to the UNSC to act against the illegal annexation of IOJK by the Indian Occupation govt

For the 18th consecutive Friday, no Friday prayers were held at Jamia Masjid. While the police claimed that there were no curbs in place around the historic Masjid, the Anjuman-e-Auqaf said until security forces were removed from all entry and exit gates, no prayers will be held at the Masjid.

Socialist Equality Party candidate for the Sheffield Central constituency Chris Marsden spoke at a general election meeting organised at the Madina Masjid, the first purpose-built mosque in Sheffield.

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has issued notifications banning civilian constructions and repairs near the army’s field ordnance depots in various Valley districts except if they are approved by the army or top district officials, triggering fear that it could be a prelude to evicting thousands of residents from their homes.

Kashmiris enduring their region’s ongoing internet blackout are losing their WhatsApp accounts because of the platform’s policy on inactive accounts.

Azad Jammu Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan has said that India has illegally revoked Articles 35-A and 370 that altered the existing demography of the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) in a move that can be termed as Occupational Constitutionalism.

On the evening of August 4 15 ebullient reporters and editors of a web portal in Srinagar were working furiously on keyboards of their computers, writing out stories that would reflect the uncertainty and concerns among local residents that had been witness to a massive month-long build-up of security forces.

Srinagar: “Shouts of ‘chal ya rakhskah ha aayi’ (‘run, the police vehicle is close’), cries, slaps, men in uniform dragging boys down deserted roads and gunshots.”
These are the sights and sounds that make up 14-year-old Afaan Mustafa’s dreams.