Muzaffarabad: Pasban-e-Hurriyat Women’s head Mehnaz Qureshi has said that Indian government in Occupied Kashmir is the use of torture and arrests on Kashmiri women as a weapon of war. In a assertion issued to the media on the event of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, she stated that millions of Kashmiri women in Occupied Kashmir are affected by the concern of Indian soldiers, wherein they are being stressed each day. While talking approximately Indian navy atrocities in Occupied Kashmir, she stated that each city, metropolis, village and every street and nook of Kashmir is a image of the worst fear for Kashmiri girls, including that Kashmiri girls preserve to suffer nation terrorism, injustice, oppression and violence. She stated that India is constantly the use of violence and arrests of Kashmiri girls as a weapon of war to weaken the Kashmiri freedom motion inside the occupied country. Qureshi stated that on the one hand, the day is being celebrated everywhere in the global to guard girls’s rights and end violence in opposition to them, but unluckily then again, Kashmiri ladies are nevertheless dealing with oppression and violence through Indian squaddies. She said that over the past 35 years in popular and mainly after August five, 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party government has taken illegal measures in Kashmir to overwhelm the continued public resistance for freedom via armed soldiers, paramilitary forces, police and other organizations. “Indian squaddies martyred nearly 2500 Kashmiri women in Occupied Kashmir in 1989, at the same time as 11500 Kashmiri ladies were desecrated by way of Indian squaddies”, she lamented. Mehnaz said that 23 thousand Kashmiri ladies became widows inside the closing 35 years due to Indian country terrorism. She said that there are nevertheless around 27 hundred Kashmiri girls who’re semi widows whose husbands were arrested by way of Indian soldiers, but no matter the passage of a few years, these girls do now not recognize whether they are alive or martyred. She said that there may be no domestic in Kashmir wherein ladies aren’t fearful of the presence of Indian infantrymen. “Many girls, inclusive of activists Syeda Asia Andrabi, Nahida Nasreen, Fahmida Sufi, have been illegally imprisoned in various jails in India and Occupied Jammu and Kashmir for decades”, she stated. She stated that the sexual violence of Indian infantrymen on Kashmiri ladies in Kunanposhpura area of Kupwara district, the heartbreaking incident of rape and martyrdom of Asiya, Nilufar in Shopian and the 8-12 months-vintage girl in Kathua in 2018 are coronary heart-wrenching incidents along with the torture of Asifa Bano by using the Indian police, such incidents are clear proof that India is the usage of violence and torture against girls in Jammu and Kashmir as a weapon of conflict. She appealed to the agencies working for women’s rights round the world to play their function in finishing the violence of Indian squaddies in opposition to girls in Kashmir. She also demanded the United Nations Security Council to put in force its resolutions on Kashmir for a peaceful strategy to the Kashmir difficulty.
