South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

 NEW DELHI,   March 18: The Indian government is set to import vehicle scanning machines of its paramilitary forces from the US to use it in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The Multi-Mode Passive Detection System (MMPDS) is an advanced version of the scanning system which is not based on X-Ray and it can monitor all vehicles entering in the territory. The MMPDS is a safe, effective and reliable automated scanning system that quickly detects, locates and identifies explosives, weapons, drugs, tobacco, alcohol, humans, other contraband, as well as unshielded to heavily shielded radiological and nuclear threats, the Indian officials said. 

NEW DELHI,March 18:  The  Cinema halls in India screening Vivek Agnihotri’s film, The Kashmir Files, have become hubs of jingoism where sundry Hindutva activists and anti-social elements have no inhibition to give vent to their deep-seated hatred for Muslims. The crowds are seen calling for genocide of Muslim with impunity and adding  communal hatred. The critics of the film, who had said that it was intended to provoke sentiments against Muslims, stand vindicated by what is happening in the theatres.

 Srinagar, March 17  : Indian police arrested  over a dozen youth in Srinagar, in  Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Indian police during house raids arrested over a dozen youth   at Nowgam area of Srinagar. The arrested youth were involved in protest against the killing of three youth martyred by Indian troops yesterday during cordon and search operation in the area, the police FIR claimed.The police registered FIR on them in Police Station Nowgam. 

 By Abdul Bari MasoudNew Delhi,March 17 : A group of Muslim women activists  have expressed grave concern over the Indian state Karnataka High Court’s decision on the head scarp/ hijab prohibition in schools and colleges. The women activists  said the contentious verdict has far reaching consequences on the community which failed to address their fundamental right to religious freedom as well as it did not  make  mention of the stalking, harassment, and assault against Muslim women perpetrated by  ultra Hindutva vigilante groups and members of the college administration since the interim order was issued.  Activists also underlined that the verdict creates a false equivalence between the saffron shawl and the wearing of the hijab, giving the crowd more power to harass Muslim women. They held a press conference at the Press Club of India  to put across their concerns after the verdict saying Muslim women are likely to experience increasing prejudice in public areas after the court ruling. 

Srinagar, March 16 : A record room of the Government Middle School Malpora Nowgam in Sumbal Sonawari area of Bandipora district was gutted in mysterious fire incidents in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. In a mysterious fire incident a record room of Government middle school Malpora Nowgam was damaged during the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday.

LUCKNOW ,March 16: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has expressed ‘regret and disappointment’ on the Karnataka High Court order upholding the ban on head scarp/ hijab in educational institutions in Indian southern state Karnatna. 

Srinagar, March 16 : Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred three more youth in Srinagar district, today. The youth were martyred by the Indian army’s Rashtriya Rifles and Central Reserve Police Force during a cordon and search operation in Nowgam area of the district. Railway authorities told media that the train services have also been suspended from Banihal to Baramulla.

 SRINAGAR, March 14 :  Body of man and woman were recovered from the River Jhelum in  two districts of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.  A decomposed dead body  one Showkat Ahmad Gorsi (25) was recovered in river jhelum at Zirpara of Islamabad district

 New Delhi ,March 14 : A fact finding committee (FFC) of the Press Council of India (PCI) has found that the “news media in the Jammu & Kashmir and especially in the Kashmir Valley is slowly being choked mainly because of the extensive curbs imposed by the local administration”. The FFC was set up in September 2021 by then PCI chairman Justice (retd) C K Prasad to look at the state of the media in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir after PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti wrote to the Council.  “There is a long list of journalists who have been individually harassed. The object is to create a fear and intimidation to fall in with the government line,” the FFC   committee has said in its report that was submitted last week.

 Srinagar, March 10 :  Indian troops martyred three Kashmiri youth in Pulwama and Srinagar districts, today in n Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.