Women facing worst Indian state oppression in IIOJK: Speakers
Muzaffarabad: The women wing of Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir organized a seminar “Thousands of widows are victims of insecurity in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir” in Muzaffarabad today which was organised on the occasion of the International Widows’ Day, being observed today.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the speakers addressing the seminar said women have been facing the worst state oppression in occupied Jammu and Kashmir for the past three and a half decades.
They said husbands have been martyred by the Indian troops and made them widows, while Indian terrorist soldiers have abducted the husbands of more than 2700 Kashmiri women from their homes and these women are forced to live a life of half-widows.
The speakers said the countries and institutions claiming peace, justice and freedom in the world have remained silent spectators even after seeing all this and demanded that the Indian government and soldiers, who destroyed the lives of thousands of women in occupied Jammu and Kashmir should be brought to justice.
The participants of the seminar called upon international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Asia Watch, to put pressure on the Indian government to recover the husbands of hundreds of half widow women of Kashmir who have been abducted and disappeared.
The speakers demanded of the international organizations, including the United Nations, European Union and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to stop India from using sexual assaults, torture and arrests of Kashmiri women as weapons of war.
They also urged for taking steps to release women Hurriyat leaders Syeda Aasiya Andrabi, Naheeda Nasreen, Fehmeeda Sufi and other Kashmiri women detained in various jails in India.
Mahnaz Qureshi, Head of women wing of Pasban-e- Hurriyat, Rifat Farooq Sheikh, Iqra Awan, Fatima Ghazali and others addressed the seminar.
