Srinagar, September 17 ,2019: The curfew like restrictions and communications blackout across Indian occupied Kashmir entered 44th day on Tuesday, as shops and businesses in the region remain closed since August 5.The mobile telephone services and the internet, including broadband services, continued to remain suspended since August 5.
Due to the ongoing military clampdown, the people of the Kashmir valley were facing acute shortage of basic essentials, including food, milk and life-saving drugs.
Under the prevailing circumstances, the local newspapers find it difficult to hit the stands, while they couldn’t update their online editions.The schools remained open across the region but the students fail to turn up. The attendance in government offices also remained thin, Kashmir Media Service reported.
Meanwhile, reacting to unprecedented curfew, communications blackout and arrest of Kashmiri leaders, including Farooq Abdullah who was placed under black law PSA in his house, the National Conference said the territory was under martial law and democratic and constitutional principles had been forsaken.
“Farooq’s arrest has blown to shreds the lies of New Delhi that people have welcomed Article 370 decision. It will have serious consequences,” the NC warned.
Due to the ongoing military clampdown, the people of the Kashmir valley are facing acute shortage of basic essentials including food, milk and life-saving drugs. Under the prevailing circumstances, the local newspapers find it difficult to hit the stands, while they couldn’t update their online editions.
Meanwhile, international media reported that screams of people are often heard from Indian army camps in occupied Kashmir at night, as troops pick up youth from villages and torture them at their camps to make them an example for others. Around two dozen young men in the villages of Shopian shared terrible stories with the media.
Sajjad Hyder Khan, a local official in Pinjoora village, told media that he had seen a list of 1,800 people detained by police and troops from Shopian alone. The residents say the troops are committing such inhuman acts with an aim to create a climate of fear in the occupied territory.
APHC leader and Muslim Khawateen Markaz Chairperson, Yasmeen Raja in a statement urged the international community to take serious notice of worst human rights situation in occupied Kashmir. Communist Party of India-Marxist leader, Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami in a statement said that the people of Kashmir were dying a slow death.