SRINAGAR: In a massive military buildup, the Narendra Modi-led Indian regime has deployed nearly 300 additional paramilitary companies in the occupied Kashmir Valley.
According to Kashmir Media Service, this deployment is under the guise of ensuring a smooth conduct of the election election drama, scheduled to take place in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir in three phases on September 18, 25, and October 1.
The paramilitary forces, comprising personnel from the Central Reserve Police Force, Border Security Force, Sahastra Seema Bal, and Indo-Tibetan Border Police, have been stationed across various areas of Srinagar, Handwara, Ganderbal, Budgam, Kupwara, Baramulla, Bandipora, Islamabad, Shopian, Pulwama, Awantipora, and Kulgam.
Srinagar, the summer capital, has received the highest deployment with 55 companies, indicating the Modi regime’s heightened concerns about political freedom in the territory. The notification for the first phase of elections was issued on Tuesday.
This heavy deployment of Indian military personnel suggests that a war is being waged instead of a democratic exercise in the name of so-called elections.
UN urged to intervene for release of detained Kashmiri leadership, activists
The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has appealed to the United Nations and international human rights organizations to pressure India to release all Kashmiri political detainees, including APHC leadership, youth, and activists held in inhumane conditions in jails of India and occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas in a statement issued in Srinagar stated that India cannot suppress the Kashmiri people’s freedom sentiment through illegal detentions, arrests, and harassment. He urged the UN and human rights organizations to secure the release of Kashmiri detainees, including APHC leadership, who have spent over two decades in jails.
The spokesman expressed concern over the plight of Kashmiri detainees, naming several individuals Dr. Muhammad Shafi Shariati, Dr. Mohammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Ghulam Qadir Butt, Nazir Ahmad Sheikh, Mohammad Ayub Dar, Mohammad Ayub Mir, Javed Ahmad Khan, Feroz Ahmed Dar, Abdul Hameed Tailee, Tariq Ahmed Mattoo, Mahmood Topi Wala, Bashir Ahmad Pannu, Fayyaz Ahmed, Sharifud-Din-Gujjar, Muhammad Ashraf Peer, Khalid Mehboob Phalwan, Maqsood Ahmed Butt, Pervaiz Ahmed Mir, Mohammad Abbas Wani, Farooq Ahmad Sheikh, Abdul Waheed, Abdul Rasheed Mir and Fahdullah.who have been imprisoned for extended periods.
