Incarcerated Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference Masarrat Aalam Butt has called upon the United Nations to resolve the Kashmir dispute by implementing its resolutions that guaranteed the Kashmiri people the inalienable right to self-determination.

In a message sent from New Delhi’s infamous Tihar Jail, Masarrat Aalam Butt deplored that India had been violating UN resolutions and international humanitarian laws for decades and trying to subjugate the Kashmiri people through oppressive tactics.

Addressing the faithful at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, today, Senior APHC leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq  demanded release of political prisoners and youth languishing in different jails of India and the territory.

Meanwhile, in a bid to further crush Kashmiris economically, New Delhi has given a go ahead to railway authorities to expand the railway lines in orchards of IIOJK.

As per the plan, five new railway lines crisscross the Kashmir valley, including a 26-kilometer in the apple-rich stretch from Awantipora to Shopian.

On the other hand, in its latest attempt to engineer a demographic change in IIOJK and install a Hindutva chief minister in the Muslim-majority region, the Indian government has incorporated 1.1 million new voters, mostly non-Kashmiris, into the territory's voter list.

Since 2019 when the voters stood at around 7.6 million, the voter count surged to over 86 lakhs by January 2024.