The world human rights watchdog Amnesty International has expressed serious concern over the use of pellet guns by Indian troops on protesters in Occupied Kashmir.

According to Kashmir Media Service, the Amnesty has written a letter to the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau ahead of his visit to India urging him to raise the matter of the use of pellet guns in his meeting with the Indian prime minister scheduled for next week.

In the letter, the Amnesty International has said that Indian forces have been using pellet firing shotguns in occupied Kashmir since 2010 and during this period, these weapons had killed, blinded and injured thousands of people.

It said that in January this year, the puppet administration of occupied Kashmir admitted in the so-called Assembly that 6,221 persons received pellet gun injuries.

Meanwhile, in occupied Kashmir, Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism, martyred two Kashmiri youth during a violent military operation in Balakote area of Poonch district.

The troops also conducted cordon and search operations in Palhalan, Arwani, Islamabad, Meindhar and Samba areas, causing huge inconvenience to the people.

The residents of Palhalan and Arwani staged demonstrations against the operations.

Indian police and troops used brute force to disperse the protesters, triggering clashes between the demonstrators and the forces’ personnel.

The Chairman of Hurriyet forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, addressing a gathering at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, today, strongly denounced the puppet authorities for preventing people from offering Juma prayers at the mosque. He said that the Kashmir dispute would not disappear by blocking all avenues of public expression of protest and outrage against repression.

On the other hand, complete shutdown will be observed in Occupied Kashmir, tomorrow, against the shifting of Kashmiri detainees from Srinagar Central Jail to Jammu, staying of an FIR against the Indian troops involved in recent killing of civilians in Shopian by the Supreme Court of India and the brutal killing of a Hurriyet leader, Muhammad Yousuf Nadeem.