Apart from sexual violence, Kashmiri women face mental and physical violence at the hands of brutal Indian soldiers
Monday, May 13, 2024
Islamabad (Urdu Point News Latest - NNI. May 13, 2024) The Azad Jammu and Kashmir branch of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference organized a seminar in Islamabad on the occasion of International Mother's Day, in which the Kashmiri Azadi Movement played an outstanding role. Tributes were paid to Kashmiri mothers. According to Kashmir Media Service, the seminar was presided over by the convener Mehmood Ahmed Sagar.
Addressing the seminar, he said that Kashmiri women are resisting Indian brutality while Indian soldiers and police officers are using violence and sexual assault on Kashmiri women as a weapon of war. He said that Kashmiri women Indian states are the most affected by terrorism and they are seeing their near and dear ones being targeted by Indian bullets.
On this occasion, the speakers paid tribute to the mothers who made unprecedented sacrifices for the freedom movement of Kashmir. They said that India is using women's empowerment as a weapon of war in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. He said that there are many examples of degradation of women in the occupied area from Kanan Pooshpura to Shopian's Asia and Nilofar's rape and murder.
The speakers said that Indian soldiers have martyred the husbands and sons of Kashmiri women during detention or in fake encounters. He said that Indian soldiers targeted hundreds of Kashmiri women and girls, including Haba Nisar and Insham Mushtaq, with deadly pellet guns and for demanding their right to self-determination, around two dozen Kashmiri women, including Hurriyat leaders Asia Andrabi, Fahmida Sufi and Nahida Nasreen, are still in India. They are detained in the jails of the occupied area.
Speakers said that apart from sexual violence, Kashmiri women are facing mental and physical violence at the hands of brutal Indian soldiers. He said that the fathers, brothers, sons and husbands of thousands of Kashmiri women have been forcibly disappeared by Indian soldiers and they are not being given any information about their loved ones. He urged other international organizations working for it to take notice of the difficulties faced by Kashmiri mothers in the occupied territory and increase pressure on India to give Kashmiris their right to self-determination.
In the meeting, among others, Syed Faiz Naqshbandi, Muhammad Rafiq Dar, Altaf Hussain Wani, Imtiaz Wani, Shamim Shall, Muhammad Hussain Khatib, Nisar Mirza, Advocate Parvez Ahmed, Muhammad Shafi Dar, Sheikh Muhammad Yaqub, Zahid Safi, Sanaullah Dar, Haji Sultan Butt, Mian Muzaffar, Javed Iqbal Butt, Sheikh Abdul Majid, Gulshan Ahmed, Manzoor Ahmad Dar, Mushtaq Ahmed Butt, Zahid Ashraf, Abdul Majid Lon, Syed Kifayat Hussain Rizvi, Syed Mushtaq, Rais Ahmed Mir, Shaukat Ahmad Butt, Iqbal Baloch, Abu Zar, Afsar Khan and Zahid Ashraf also participated.
