‘India falsely declaring Kashmiri martyrs Covid-19 positive’

AJK president says occupation forces killing people of IIOJK in guise of so called cordon and search operation

MUZAFFARABAD:

Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has condemned Indian occupation forces “for falsely” declaring Kashmiri martyrs Covid-19 positive in a bid to bury them without offering their funeral prayers.

"The youth being declared corona positive are tortured to death during the so-called cordon and search operations being carried out by the Indian army in different parts the occupied territory," he said in a statement on Saturday.

Commenting on an analytical report released by Kashmir Media Service, he said that the martyred youth in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) are being falsely declared coronavirus positive “because they fear that thousands of people may throng their funeral prayers if permitted”.

The AJK president said that more than 96,500 innocent Kashmiri people have been martyred in IIOJK since January 1989. Of them, 7,147 youth were martyred in the custody of the Indian occupation army, he added.

President Masood said that the hypocrisy and falsehood of the Indian government and the military can be gauged from the fact that they are declaring it as "operation goodwill gesture" in occupied territory in a bid to hoodwink the international community.

Quoting the report, he said the Indian Army had destroyed 110,367 structures and molested 11,219 women in Occupied Kashmir during the last 30 years, which is enough to expose this so-called operation ‘goodwill gesture’.

The AJK president said that the Indian troops in guise of so called cordon and search operation detain Kashmiri youth and take them to the military garrison “where they are martyred, and later declared coronavirus patients, they are buried in unmarked graves”.

He said that India was carrying out massacre, genocide and ethnic cleansing in the occupied valley to change its demography.

He urged the Indian government to halt the ongoing military operation in Occupied Kashmir, reverse all its illegal actions taken on August 5 and unconditionally release Kashmiri leaders and political activists including Yasin Malik and Asiya Andrabi.

President Masood also condemned the unprovoked Indian firing in Tatapani and Goi sectors of Azad Kashmir in violation of the ceasefire agreement.