Detained senior leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), Shabbir Ahmed Shah, has urged the international community to take cognizance of the fast-deteriorating human rights situation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

In his message from Tihar jail, Shah voiced concern over the global community’s deafening silence on the abysmal situation in Kashmir saying political, social, cultural and religious rights of the Kashmiri people remain critically suppressed.

He said that instead of reflecting a genuine desire to grant the Kashmiri people their promised right, the Indian rulers have been trying to crush their legitimate struggle for right to self-determination by using its military might.