{"id":185123,"date":"2025-10-07T14:38:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=185123"},"modified":"2025-10-07T14:43:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:43:25","slug":"civil-society-punctures-modi-regimes-normalcy-mantra-in-kashmir-falsenormalcynarrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/10\/07\/civil-society-punctures-modi-regimes-normalcy-mantra-in-kashmir-falsenormalcynarrative.html","title":{"rendered":"Civil society punctures Modi regime\u2019s normalcy mantra in Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-185126\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/ddd-1-337x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/ddd-1-337x220.jpg 337w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/ddd-1-719x470.jpg 719w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/ddd-1-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/ddd-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/>\\Srinagar: Srinagar-based civil society activists have strongly denounced the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Hindutva regime for spreading a \u201cfalse narrative of peace and normalcy\u201d in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, saying that daily killings, arbitrary arrests, raids, and cordon-and-search operations expose the hollow nature of New Delhi\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the activists said that the Modi regime continues to distort facts to sustain its false narrative on Kashmir, adding that the ground realities clearly contradict the Indian government\u2019s propaganda of peace and development. \u201cHow can there be normalcy when Kashmiris are denied every fundamental right \u2014 even the right to life?\u201d they asked.<\/p>\n<p>They emphasized that IIOJK remains the world\u2019s most militarized zone, where the presence of hundreds of thousands of Indian troops enforces a reign of fear and suppression. \u201cUnder Modi\u2019s iron-fisted rule, India has stripped Kashmiris of their political, economic, and cultural rights,\u201d the activists said, adding that New Delhi seeks to hoodwink the international community into believing that peace prevails in the territory.<\/p>\n<p>The activists stressed that true normalcy will remain elusive in Kashmir and South Asia until the Kashmiri people are granted their UN-recognized right to self-determination. They noted that peace cannot be achieved through military might or propaganda but only through justice and respect for the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.<\/p>\n<p>They called on the United Nations and global human rights organizations to send fact-finding missions to IIOJK to independently assess the grim ground situation, which they said remains deliberately concealed by th3e Indian authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The activists reaffirmed that lasting peace in the region is possible only when Kashmiris are heard and allowed to determine their own political future in accordance with UN resolutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\\Srinagar: Srinagar-based civil society activists have strongly denounced the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Hindutva regime for spreading a \u201cfalse narrative of peace and normalcy\u201d in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, saying that daily killings, arbitrary arrests, raids, and cordon-and-search operations expose the hollow nature of New Delhi\u2019s claims. 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