CategoriesPress ReleaseLegal Forum for Kashmir (LFK) expresses grave concern over the continued detention of Kashmiri political prisoners in Indian prisons, including the sentencing of Asiya Andrabi, Head of Dukhtaran Millat, to life imprisonment, and the imposition of 30-year sentences on Nahida Nasreen and Sofi Fehmeeda. These convictions, secured under expansive security legislation, reflect a pattern in…
CategoriesReportsThe occupied region of Kashmir and India’s Mumbai-based Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood, share a long history of relationship.
CategoriesReportsThe first six months of 2024 (January-June) saw a continued trend of state repression and counter-insurgency operations in the war-trampled region of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJK).
CategoriesPolicy BriefUnited Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners: Prisoners shall be required to keep their persons clean, and to this end they shall be provided with water and with such toilet articles as are necessary for health and cleanliness. United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women…
CategoriesBlog15 years after the horrendous rape and murder, the Indian state continues to erase our memory,
CategoriesReportsThe revocation of Article 370 on 5th August 2019 has brought about a paradigm shift in the socio-political landscape of Kashmir. Following the unilateral revocation of this article that granted ‘semi-autonomous’ status to the Indian Occupied Kashmir by perpetuating hermeneutical violence, India has initiated a multifaceted socio-psychological re-engineering of Kashmir’s religious and cultural landscape–––, effectuating…
CategoriesReportsFor over three decades, the region of Indian Occupied Kashmir has been a crucible of Armed conflict and suffering, marked by violence, oppression, and persistent turmoil. The report Published by the Institute of Kashmir Studies (IKS) for the period of April to September 1997 serves as a stark reminder of the harsh realities faced by the Kashmiri populace during that era, highlighting the enduring and tragic narrative that continues to unfold.
CategoriesReportsDark Days Deadly Nights is the collection of testimonies of the Kashmiri civilians who were brutally massacred by the Indian occupying forces.
CategoriesLettersLegal Forum for Kashmir-LFK is an International legal advocacy group working on the promotion of Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, and UN guaranteed Right of self-determination for the people of Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJK).
CategoriesReportsThe Legal Forum for Kashmir (LFK) released its annual report, titled “Human Rights Situation in Indian Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IOJK): January to December 2023.”
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.
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.
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…
CategoriesReportsThe Institute of Kashmir Studies (IKS) conducted a detailed study on the Lal-Chowk Arson, immediately after its incidence.
CategoriesReportsThe government of India has employed
different forms and strategies of counter-insurgency operations in
Kashmir.
CategoriesBlogIn the larger discourse of direct , structural and cultural violence, women in this occupied region are often neglected.
CategoriesBlogOn 11 February 1984 a 45 year old Kashmiri man Maqbool Bhat, considered to be architect of Kashmir’s first armed rebellion, was sent to gallows inside India’s infamous detention centre Tihar Jail, west of New Delhi, the capital of the Indian state.
CategoriesReportsThe enactment of Jammu & Kashmir Re-organization Act 2019 by the
Indian Parliament after the unilateral and Illegal annexation of Indian
occupied Jammu Kashmir-IOJK marks a critical turning point in the
transition of colonial laws into settler colonial legislations applicable to
state.
CategoriesReportsA detailed, study was conducted by Institute of Kashmir Studies on the Kupwara Massacre.
CategoriesReportsDownload Report On the morning of January 6, 1993, Indian occupying troops of 94 Battalion, Border Security Force (94 Bn. BSF), led by Commanding Officer S. Thangappan, shot and killed 46 people and injured dozens more. This fact finding probe compiled by Institute of Kashmir studies-IKS is eye-opener to the world that India and it’s…
CategoriesReports1) A total of 312 killings. 2) 200 major cordon and search operations (CASOs). 3) 212 residential houses destroyed. 4) 116 military operations. 5) 181 freedom fighters killed. 6) 45 civilians murdered by the occupying forces. 7) Death of 24 Indian occupying forces. 8) Intimidation, harassment, arbitrary detention and illegal confinement. 9) 24 structures (houses,…
CategoriesReports‘Colonial Diary’ the repository of settler colonial diktats by the Indian administration in IIOJK has been compiled by the research team of Legal Forum for Kashmir (LFK).
CategoriesReportsThis report is aimed to play an important role in keeping alive the memory of loss and resistance that is being erased systematically from the public domain in Kashmir.
CategoriesReportsview Dossier Tabarak Hussain, 32, the mentally challenged son of Abdul Malik, resident of Sabzkot, Kotli in Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PAK) inadvertently crossed the Ceasefire Line on August 21. The Indian Border Security Forces indiscriminately fired upon him and captured him alive in injured condition. He had at least two bullet wounds, one in his…
CategoriesUncategorizedDownload Report For many in Kashmir, journalists are considered the last line of ‘defense’ for representing the actual reality of ground in the valley. A community of more than 300 journalists in Srinagar who are somehow managing to survive are struggling to keep journalism relevant in Kashmir. The new ‘Media Policy’ in 2020, to be…
CategoriesReportsDownload Report 191 killings, 120 Cordon and Search Operations (CASOs), 116 residential houses bombed, 72 military operations, 122 freedom fighters killed, 45 Indian Occupying Forces personnel killed in retaliation, and 24 civilians killed in various incidents of violence. The intimidation and harassment of human rights defenders, journalists, and civil society continue at the hands of…
CategoriesPERSPECTIVEOn June 19, 2022, Jammu and Kashmir Police announced that an encounter between Indian Armed forces and freedom fighters has erupted in Lolab area of North Kashmir. Soon, as events and information unfolded, it was a textbook style of earlier operations. It was not the first time they had a script with so many loopholes…
CategoriesPERSPECTIVETranslation of Shahnawaz Taing’s Urdu Short Story ‘INSANIYAT” She was walking like a cat. Happy and calm. It was a warm, beautiful morning. Suddenly she felt nauseous. Her head began to spin. Blood pressure reached the sky (must have been 180/170 if checked sphygmomanometer). Her condition was getting worse and with a loud thud, she fell on…
CategoriesPERSPECTIVEHe is going to die, shoot him twice, slit his throat They won’t forget, hear the cries, slit his throat Heer wandering in the lanes of Kashmir, said Where is Ranja, put him on the ice, slit his throat Ali won’t come to help us, we’re not Hussain Find your own Yazeed, pay the price,…
CategoriesPERSPECTIVEmabrook, you are a mouj now, be wise — prepare his head for a bullet a charming martyr with green eyes — prepare his head for a bullet children who survive are all blind, they shot pellets in their eyes they target the kids and never compromise — prepare his head for a bullet wamiq, salik, sameer,…
CategoriesPERSPECTIVEI should have forgotten as soon as it happened. Memories can haunt. Become nightmares. Forgetting is a blessing. I envy those who master the art of forgetfulness. They can move on in life easily. I am not among them. I am cursed. I remember. I don’t know why I remember but, unfortunately, I do. I…
CategoriesPERSPECTIVEA man of uncompromising nature, Shaheed Sehrai was known to be a close confidant of late Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the most popular resistance figure of the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir who passed away in September last year. Both remained close to each other for almost 50 years. First arrested when he was…
CategoriesPERSPECTIVEFrom a student to a life convict, it has been tough journey for senior Liberation Leader, Dr Aashiq Hussain Faktoo alias Dr Qasim who has completed 29 years of imprisonment.
CategoriesPERSPECTIVEHow do you place yourself in a situation when your oppressor comes with all guns blazing to make you forget your history and erase all the memories and shape you in an altogether different individual with no memories of what you are and have been doing to exist in an overwhelmingly abnormal situation? Defenceless and…
CategoriesPERSPECTIVEIt was a quiet, sultry summer. The fighters had come from a long distance to hold a meeting with a newly appointed commander in Kupwara district of the valley, north of Kashmir. Tiered, the fighters took a bath in the nearby stream, on a hanging giant rock overlooking almost a dozen Indian army posts situated…
CategoriesUncategorizedAtrocity Crimes, Constitutional Onslaught, andGenocide Threat in IOJK: Role Human RightsWatchdogs Atrocity Crimes, Constitutional Onslaught, andGenocide Threat in IOJK: Role Human RightsWatchdogs Atrocity Crimes, Constitutional Onslaught, andGenocide Threat in IOJK: Role Human RightsWatchdogs Download Research Paper The 74 years of military occupation in Jammu and Kashmir is considered as longest occupation in modern history, with…
CategoriesPress ReleaseAnnual Human Rights Review 2021 Review: 257 killings, 195 CASOs, 130 residential houses bombed, 80 military operations, 163 freedom fighters killed, 48 Indian occupying forces killed in retaliation, and 46 civilians murdered by the occupying forces. And Indian right-wing regime arrests members of the Kashmiri Civil Society, journalists, and activists. This annual report prepared by…
CategoriesBlogOn November 8, Srinagar, the summer capital of the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir was selected among 49 cities worldwide to join the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO’s creative cities network (UCCN). UCCN secretariat is administered by UNESCO, which ensures the network’s management at the global level. The initiative provides support…
CategoriesPress ReleaseThe webinar, titled ‘Demystifying Kashmir Under Siege’, was hosted by Legal Forum for Kashmir (LFOVK), an advocacy group for Kashmir based in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad. India has moved away from United Nation Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, the ongoing situation in Indian Occupied Jammu Kashmir (IOJK) demands global attention, the speakers emphasized. “The most important thing…
CategoriesBlogThe 73 years of military occupation of the UN recognised disputed territory of Kashmir, makes it one of the longest military occupations of modern history.
CategoriesBlogدورحاضرمیں انسانی حقوق محض ایک نعرہ بن چکا ہے۔ انسانی حقوق کی ان پامالیوں اصل سبب انسان کا وہ حیوانی جذبہ ہے جو اسے دوسروں پر ناحق حکم چلانے کےلیے اکساتا ہے۔ یہی وجہ ہے کہ صدیوں سے یہ بحث جاری ہے کہ انسانوں کے ایک دوسرے پر کیا حقوق ہیں؟ بقول سید مودودی: ”…
CategoriesBlogJust two days before Governor Jagmohan Malhotra, backed by the Indian Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) movement, was reappointed in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, a massive protest broke out in Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir to control the pro-freedom demonstrations. It has been over three decades since Jan. 21, 1990, when Indian occupying troops under his command…
CategoriesBlogIntroduction: On 5 August 2019, the government of India revoked the special constitutional status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution, and abrogated Article 35A which had allowed it to define who its ‘permanent residents’ are and what rights and privileges are attached to such residency. After the…
CategoriesBlogBi-Annual Human Rights Review (Jan – June 2021) Indian occupied Jammu Kashmir is under unprecedented censorship and this undemocratic forms of muzzling the voices of people has intensified manifold after the revocation of Article 370 and 35(A). The subsequent raids on human rights groups, activists, and journalists have made it more difficult for organizations to…
CategoriesBlogمحمد رفيق شنوارى تدور قضية كشمير – ولا سيما في خضم المحاولات لفهمها من منظور الصراع المسلح – حول حق تقرير المصير. وفقًا لما قاله وودرو ويلسون أنه لا يمكن أن يستمر أي سلام لا يعترف بالمبدأ القائل بأن الحكومات تستمد كل سلطاتها العادلة من موافقة المحكومين ، وأنه لا يوجد حق في أي…
CategoriesBlogBy bringing Hindu temples and relics to the fore, the Indian state and its proponents have only fueled the idea that it is Muslim Kashmiris who are the “exogenous ‘Others.’” In fact, India has crafted Kashmir’s public identity into a Hindu one, as more and more highly romanticized pilgrimages emerge in the Kashmir Valley. Indeed, it was…
CategoriesBlogAfter the killing of Burhan Wani, a young commander and a socially popular figure in the Indian-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the struggle for the right to self-determination in the disputed Himalayan valley changed drastically. Wani was shot dead by Indian occupying forces on July 8, 2016, in southern Kashmir. The killing sparked an uprising,…
CategoriesBlogBy Dr Abdul Manaan If one has to get sense of how fast is time running, ask any Kashmiri who has witnessed it all from Balakote bombing to Pakistan and India resuming trade, and then abrupt reversal of the decision, after later illegally and unilaterally annexed Kashmir in 2019. Let us put things in perspective…
CategoriesBlogKashmir is fighting for its United Nations-guaranteed right to self-determination and to put an end to India’s decadeslong military occupation of the region. The Kashmiri dispute is categorized as an international armed conflict involving India and Pakistan. Both countries have fought three major wars – in 1948, 1965 and 1991 – over Kashmir. Indigenous armed…
CategoriesBlogA year of constitutional fraud and unlawful annexation of the Article 370 and 35A has stripped the region of its special autonomous status and permanent residence along with the application of discriminatory laws such as J&K Reorganisation Order 2020, further dividing the region into two ‘union territories’. The new Indian Domicile Laws are designed to…
CategoriesBlogThe red onyx clad room (khooni Kumra) where we judges met at tea break was a frequent reminder of the dishonest partition award for punjab given by Radcliffe. Gurdaspur district a Muslim majority area adjoins Jammu And Kashmir southern border was among the districts-listed in the Indian Independence Act in Pakistan punjab but the 16th August Award 1947 changed…
CategoriesBlogSyed Ali Geelani is a central vanguard in Kashmir’s “War of Liberation” movement. Born and brought up in northern Kashmir’s Bandipora district in September 1929, Geelani’s life is embedded with incitement, fascination and inspiration. His long, unfaltering stance on the Kashmir resistance for Liberation, over the years, has earned him the title of “The Leader…
CategoriesPress ReleaseLegal forum for oppressed of Kashmir (LFOVK) on Thursday held a maiden webinar on disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir and it’s international contours. The webinar titled “Occupied Kashmir; India’s West Bank” drew a handsome participation from across countries and almost 50 people joined the discussion. Participants included, as a special guest, Pakistan’s High Commissioner…
CategoriesBlogKashmiri Muslims have been struggling for their basic human rights for over ninety years. Their struggle has passed through different phases: pre partition, post partition, post Burhan Wani, Post 5th August, etc. Their generations have seen and beard countless unforgettable events of massacres, rapes and tortures. Their history of unmatched struggle for freedom has never…
CategoriesBlogIn 1947, Great Britain partitioned its South Asian colony India, into two new independent countries: ‘Hindu’ India and ‘Muslim’ Pakistan. The status of Kashmir being princely independent state remained disputed between India and Pakistan. Like East Timor, Kashmir’s international legal status is uncertain. It is unclear whether Kashmir today exists as part of India, Pakistan…
CategoriesBlogEven wars have rules. Not every person or object could be targeted during conflict. The civilians especially are termed as ‘protected persons’ under international humanitarian law (IHL). The protection extends to their properties as well. Therefore, protection of the civilians and civilian properties stands as the cornerstone of IHL as established by ICTY.[1] IHL establishes…
CategoriesBlogIt was 1st January,1948, when India took the question of Kashmir to the United Nation by instituting a formal complaint against Pakistan in the Security Council. The Indian and Pakistani delegates traded charges against each other in the council. To begin with, Government of India alleged that the invaders from Pakistan have reached to Kashmir and…
