F.P. Report
ISLAMABAD: In occupied Kashmir, Indian troops have martyred 74 Kashmiris including 3 women and 4 young boys during the ongoing 7-month long siege and internet shutdown in the territory.
According to a report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service on the completion of seven months of unrelenting military lockdown, today, 7 of the martyred youth were killed in fake encounters or in custody.
The report said that 943 people were critically injured in the firing by Indian troops on peaceful protesters.
It said that thousands of Hurriyat leaders, activists, politicians and civil society members including APHC Chairman Syed Ali Gilani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq continue to remain under house arrest or in jails since India revoked Kashmir’s special status on 5th August, last year.
Hurriyat leaders Ghulam Sopori, Bilal Siddiqui, Zamruda Habib, Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party, Islami Tan-zeem-e-Azadi and Hurriyat AJK leaders including Altaf Hussain Wani, Abdul Majeed Malik, Altaf Ah-med Butt, Zahid Ashraf and Aijaz Rehmani in their separate statements strongly denounced the arrest of a woman and her father by Indian forces in Pulwama district.
