CategoriesReportsAugust Diaries – 1993 is the collection of testimonies of the unarmed Kashmiris who were brutally massacred by the Indian occupying forces under the pretext of Catch & Kill Military Operation.
CategoriesReportsJamaat-e-Islami – A socio-politico-religious organization in the Indian sub-continent was founded by Syed Abul Aala Maududi in 1941 in Lahore. Though Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir has ideological similarities with Jamaat-e-Islami India and Pakistan, but maintains a separate constitution and different modus operandi on account of the disputed nature of Jammu and Kashmir. Jamaat since its inception challenged the political hegemony of India and launched political awareness campaigns within the state. Sheikh Abdullah extended the emergency declared in India by the Indira Gandhi regime to J&K in 1975 and banned Jamaat and schools run by it. Jamaat detested Shaikh Abdullah’s move to end the plebiscite front and opposed the Indira-Abdullah accord. Jamaat challenged Abdullah by contesting against him and his party in 1977’s parliamentary elections. This culminated in a conspiracy hatched against Jamaat on the occasion of Bhutto’s hanging in Pakistan in April 1979. The property of Jamaat members, worth crores, was damaged by state-backed mobs.
CategoriesReportsThe Bijbehara massacre is a harrowing chapter in the history of the Kashmir conflict, one that sent shockwaves not only through the region but also garnered the attention of the international community.
CategoriesAnalysisOver the four years of India scrapping the special status of Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir, New Delhi’s most far reaching move to annex the UN recognized disputed territory and intensify the use of surveillance and predictive technologies to police and control civilian population of Kashmir. Subjecting Kashmiris to such scrutiny from security and military apparatus…
CategoriesBlogKashmir has long served as a crucible for the Indian state’s experimental endeavours. Since the dilution of the region’s semi-autonomous status in August 2019, this beleaguered land, bereft of the rule of law, has increasingly become a theatre for the implementation of measures entirely foreign to modern democracies.
CategoriesBlogSyed Ali Shah Geelani, a revered leader in the Kashmir resistance movement, was born in Zurimanz Bandipora, north of Kashmir.
CategoriesReportsOn August 5, 2019, India revoked the semiautonomous status of the
Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir thereby downgrading the erstwhile state into two centrally governed union territories – Jammu
and Kashmir, and Ladakh.
Download report The first six months of 2023 January-June saw a new trend of state repression and counterinsurgency operations in the war-trampled region of IOJK. On the ground, the violations of International Human Rights law (IHRL) and International Humanitarian law (IHL) led to appalling human tragedies. International response against these ‘Atrocity Crimes’ was inconsistent, as well as other patterns…
CategoriesPetitionsDownload Legal Memorandum by LFK Legal Memorandum To: G20 member countries From: Legal Forum for Kashmir (LFK) – an indigenous lawyers’ forum based in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJK) Re: Withdrawal from participation in G-20 meeting in Indian-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir Question Presented: IOJK is under the illegal de facto control of the New Delhi administration having…
CategoriesBlogMohammad Ashraf Sehrai achieved martyrdom on May 05, 2021 after Indian state murdered him under custody in Jammu part of the UN-designated disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Shaheed Sehrai, 77, was put under custody by India in July 2020 and imprisoned in a jail in Udhampur district, some 300KM away from his residence in…
