All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has deplored the growing number of missing children in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

In a statement in Srinagar, APHC spokesman Abdul Rashid Minhas said Indian Army and its agencies are responsible for these disappearances. He said they pick up children during cordon and search operations and sell them inside India.

Meanwhile, Kashmir Media Service in its report has revealed that over five thousand four hundred children are reported missing in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir between 2016 and 2022.