In occupied Kashmir, the Joint Resistance Leadership has said that India is repeatedly devising means to undermine the disputed status of Jammu and Kashmir by fiddling with the state subject laws to change the demographic composition of the territory.

The JRL comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik in a statement in Srinagar said the new controversy about Permanent Resident Certificates is part of the Doval doctrine borrowed from Israel.

They said this policy of assaulting Kashmiris on physical, economical and psychological accounts is to give up their legitimate struggle of freedom.

The leaders said that the policy was meant to put pressure on the Kashmiri people to surrender their legitimate struggle for right to self-determination. However, the leadership reiterated that the Kashmiris were resilient to withstand all Indian state repression, but not to budge an inch from their position.

The authorities continued to place Syed Ali Gilani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house detention and Muhammad Yasin Malik in police custody in Srinagar. The detention is aimed at preventing the leaders from spearheading a campaign to highlight human rights abuses committed by the Indian forces in the occupied territory.

Meanwhile, Chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai says India has deprived Kashmiri people from their fundamental rights since decades.  

In a statement in Srinagar he also expressed serious concern over the miserable plight of illegally detained Hurriyat leaders and activists languishing in different jails of the territory and India.

In Istanbul, more than 200 representatives of 40 countries through a resolution unanimously passed at an international conference expressed concern over the ongoing Indian state terrorism in occupied Kashmir. The resolution was moved by the Member of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, Abdul Rasheed Turabi, in the International Congress of the Union of Muslim Communities, organized by the Economic and Social Research Center popularly known as ESAM. The resolution demanded an immediate end to the human rights violations by the Indian forces in occupied Kashmir.