In Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, women are the worst victims of Indian forces’ barbarities as New Delhi is using rape as a weapon of war to suppress the Kashmiris’ struggle for right to self-determination.

A report by Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, revealed that Indian troops had sexually assaulted over 11,259 women during the past 34 years in the occupied territory.

Report said like Kunan poshpora mass rape, Shopian double rape and murder, and rape and murder of a minor girl in Kathua depict the brutal face of Indian forces in the occupied territory.

Around a hundred women were gang-raped by Indian troops during a cordon and search operation in Kunan poshpora area of Kupwara district on the night of February 23, 1991.

Meanwhile, the delegation led by President of London-based International Council of Jurists Adish C Aggarwala that arrived in Jammu refused to proceed to Srinagar.

Congress Working President Raman Bhalla interacting with people in Jammu said the BJP regime has left people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir in complete despair with outsiders ruling the roost and locals deprived of their jobs.

Martyrdom anniversary of renowned Hurriyat leader Qazi Nisar Ahmed was observed today.

Hundreds of people thronged the ‘Martyrs Graveyard’ of Islamabad to offer tributes to Qazi Nisar Ahmed on his martyrdom anniversary today, to offer Fateha for the departed soul. 

Hurriyat leaders and organizations, including Qazi Yasir, Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party, Jammu and Kashmir Political Resistance Movement, Jammu and Kashmir Youth Social Forum, Jammu Kashmir Peoples Resistance Party and Jammu Kashmir Democratic Movement in their separate statements in Srinagar paid rich tributes to the martyred leader.

Qazi Nisar was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at Dialgam in Islamabad on June 19 in 1994.