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India’s hegemonic designs have posed a great threat to the peace of entire world. The aggressive approach of New Delhi towards its neighbouring countries and interference in their internal matters is no more a secret.
The recent 17 percent increase in Indian defence budget has send alarm bells ringing amongst its bordering states. The Finance Minister of India, Pranab Mukherjee while presenting the budget in parliament on 16th March said that the allocation was based “on the present needs” and that the government would meet any “further needs for the security of the nation”.

The Human Rights Watch, a New York-based rights watchdog, in its World Report 2012 released on 23rd January, this year, said that India has failed to repeal the widely discredited Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in occupied Kashmir as well as different Indian states and to hold human rights violators accountable during 2011. The report maintained that the discovery of 2,730 unmarked graves in occupied Kashmir by the Human Rights Commission of the territory was a good first step for providing justice to the victims. It said that many Kashmiris believed that victims of fake encounter killings or enforced disappearances might have been buried in these cavities.

India has been resorting to the worst kind of brutalities to suppress the Kashmiris' just struggle against its illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir. But despite utilizing all its resources and military might, it has not been able to intimidate the Kashmiri people into submission. Killings, arrests, abduction, molestation of women and other human rights violations by Indian troops have become order of the day in the occupied territory, turning the paradise on earth into a hell for its inhabitants.

The New Delhi-based Asian Centre for Human Rights in its recent report said that minors were being detained without trial as they were not produced before courts in Indian occupied Kashmir. The report maintained that juvenile justice system was rotten in the occupied territory while the minor girls were sent to police lock ups or prisons in absence of a juvenile home for girls. The fact-finding report released by the ACHR after field visits to Srinagar, Budgam, Shopian, Pulwama, Islamabad, Kulgam, Ganderbal and Jammu districts from May to July 2010 followed up by updates said that a large number of children were detained under the draconian law, Public Safety Act, during the mass uprising in 2010. It further pointed out that the minors in pre-trial detention were assumed to be adults and were routinely lodged with adult criminals, placing them at very high risk of abuse, in clear violation of Indian national laws and international human rights standards.