SEINAGAR – In occupied Kashmir, the humanitarian crisis has deepened as theterritory continued to remain under siege of the Indian army andparamilitary forces for the 29th consecutive day, today.
According to Kashmir Media Service, all internet and communication servicesincluding landline and mobile phones and TV channels are closed in theKashmir valley and five districts of Jammu region. Local newspapers areoffline while most of them fail to bring out their print editions.
Many posters and handbills, along with pictures of Major General AsifGhafoor, Director General of Inter Services Public Relations of Pakistan,have surfaced in IOK that read, Pakistan would continue fighting forKashmir till last solider and bullet.
On the other hand ,Hurriyat activists in posters announced that the peopleof Kashmir would together push India out of their homeland, which is aparadise on earth. The activists have said that the paradise could not bean abode of brute Indian forces.
Over 11,000 political leaders and workers including Syed Ali Gilani,Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai continue to remain underhouse arrest or in jails.
A Kashmiri rights activist, Gowhar Gilani, was stopped by the Indianauthorities at the Delhi airport and barred from flying abroad
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Meanwhile, people are facing acute shortage of food, medicines and othercommodities.
Doctors have warned that hospitals are running short of medicines, surgicalequipment and people are faced with host of problems including patients notbeing able to travel for routine check-up and staff struggling to turn upfor duty due to communications blockade.
Markets and schools are also closed for the past one month. Indian forcesare using drones equipped with hi-resolution cameras and night-visiondevices to monitor anti-India protests and other pro-freedom activities inthe territory.