Martyrs’ Legacy Inspiring Kashmiri Youths: Experts

LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 13th Jul, 2025) Experts on Sunday said they salute every Kashmiri martyr, including the 22 martyrs of July 13, 1931, who became the voice of the truth against Kashmiris' oppression.

Talking to APP in connection with Kashmir Martyrs’ Day, they said that even today, the Indian occupation forces are repeating the atrocities of the Dogra Raj in Kashmir. They believe that Narendra Modi’s fascist regime is losing the battle of hearts and minds in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K). They urged the international community to help implement the UNSC resolutions in IIOJ&K, by holding a free and impartial plebiscite under the auspices of the United Nations to let the Kashmiris decide their own future.

Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik’s wife Mushaal Hussein Mullick told APP that the RSS-inspired Hindutva ideology was being pursued by the BJP-led Modi government, which was a major threat to ‘foreign investment’ in India. Amid the Indian government’s move to seek a death sentence for incarcerated Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik, Mushaal Mullick said that the entire world would react if any harm came to her husband.

She said the Indian government was trying to commit a 'judicial murder' of her husband and warned that such a move will trigger a reaction from across the world. Mushaal Mullick said that fascist Modi and the Indian Army were turning Kashmiris into a minority in the valley by issuing domiciles to Indian citizens. In Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, over 100,000 Kashmiris have been killed by Indian forces since 1989, while more than 7,200 people were murdered in custodial torture by the Indian army.

Replying to a query, she criticised India’s imperialistic and fascist approach to suppress every genuine and legitimate demand of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. The Modi-led BJP government has imposed a lockdown in occupied Kashmir, allowing Indian forces to perpetrate unspeakable crimes against the masses, with complete impunity.

She said the martyrs of July 13,1931 led this quest by standing up to the tyranny of the rulers of the day, laying down their lives. “Today, Kashmir remembers and honours them. They may be put in jails or under house arrest and threatened with dire consequences, and the martyrs’ graveyards may be sealed and blocked, but they live in our hearts and in our memory and will continue to, generation after generation,” she added.

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) MNA Sehar Kamran told APP that the latest controversy had been reported by the international media that extrajudicial killings of a number of innocent Kashmiris had become a routine in Kulgam area of the occupied territory. The Indian occupational forces’ state terrorism, war crimes, and human rights violations have made life a nightmare for over one million oppressed Kashmiris, especially women, senior citizens, and children in IIOJ&K, she regretted.

Moreover, the Indian forces are using molestation, rape and sexual violence against women and children as a weapon of war, besides giving collective punishment, in a bid to suppress the legitimate freedom movement in the occupied valley,” she said. Kashmiris have been telling the world for decades that India intended to settle paramilitary families in held Kashmir and establish military settlements there. The Narendra Modi government is all-out to set up semi-military permanent colonies in held Kashmir, she said while replying to a query.

Instead of implementing the UNSC resolutions, India is trying to muzzle the voice of Kashmiri people through the use of force and by perpetuating an illegal occupation, which had increased brutality and oppression after August 5, 2019, she added. Kashmir has been a burning issue since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. Pakistan and India have fought three wars over Kashmir in 1948, 1965, and 1999, but have been unable to settle the dispute, she recalled.