In occupied Kashmir, Indian troops continued their violent cordon and search operations on Saturday in different areas adding to the miseries of the residents already suffering immensely due to unrelenting military siege for the last over nine months.

According to Kashmir Media Service, the residents of these areas told media-persons that the troops have made their life a living hell.

They said that the forces’ barge into the residential houses, harass the inmates and ransack the household goods.

Indian police and troops arrested five youth from Arizal in Khansahib area of Badgam district, on Saturday.

The Chairman of Islamic Political Party Jammu and Kashmir, Muhammad Yousuf Naqash, in a statement in Srinagar said that the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has started a bloody game under the cover of COVID-19 against Muslims in India and Kashmir.

The Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party in its statement appealed to the international community to take cognizance of Indian state terrorism in occupied Kashmir and put pressure on New Delhi to resolve the Kashmir dispute by giving the Kashmiris their unalienable right to self-determination.

On the other hand, the Member of UK Parliament, Judith Cummins, in a statement in London expressed serious concern over the human rights abuses in occupied Kashmir.

She said that the British government must play its role in securing a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute through facilitating genuine dialogue between India and Pakistan for a safe and peaceful future of Kashmir.