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Islamabad: As International Mother\u2019s Day is being observed across the world today, thousands of Kashmiri women continue to wait for the return of their relatives subjected to enforced disappearance in custody by Indian forces and agencies in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir and detained in different jails.<\/p>\n
A report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service said International Mother’s Day is a global celebration of motherhood and the contribution of mothers to society, marked widely on the second Sunday of May.<\/p>\n
On International Mother\u2019s Day, the report pointed out that continued Indian state terrorism has resulted in the killing of 96,495 Kashmiris, including women and children, from 1989 to May 10, 2026. As many as 22,991 women have been widowed by Indian forces and 11,277 raped, disgraced, or molested during the period. The report deplored that nearly a hundred women, including 66-year-old women leader Aasiya Andrabi, Naheeda Nasreen, and Fehmeeda Sofi, are facing illegal detention in different jails, including India\u2019s infamous Tihar Jail, on false charges.<\/p>\n
It said relatives, including mothers, wives, and daughters of illegally detained APHC leaders, activists, Ulema, journalists, human rights defenders, and youth, have expressed serious concern over the health of their relatives languishing in different jails of India and IIOJK.<\/p>\n
The report pointed out that Indian forces have subjected about 8,000 Kashmiris to custodial disappearance during the period, and the mothers of the majority of these disappeared people have been waiting for their return. The second Sunday of May has been observed as Mother\u2019s Day since 1914 as a result of continued efforts by Anna Jarvis, daughter of Ann Reeves Jarvis, a peace activist in West Virginia, the United States, for her mother\u2019s contributions to society.<\/p>\n
It deplored that Kashmiri mothers are bearing the brunt of Indian state terrorism as Kashmiri women, including mothers, have taken the ultimate hit by losing their near and dear ones to Indian bullets. The report said Kashmiri mothers continue to wait for the return of their sons and husbands imprisoned or subjected to enforced disappearances in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Several Kashmiri mothers have, so far, died in their quest to find their sons disappeared in Indian troops\u2019 custody, it added.<\/p>\n
It lamented that Kashmiri mothers are not even allowed to mourn the deaths of their sons martyred by Indian troops and to bury them at places of their choice.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, several mothers, including Haseena Begum, have died. Her son, Syed Anwar Shah, a wall painter by profession, went missing on July 21, 2000, when he was arrested by Indian troops in Srinagar. Mahtaba Begum, hailing from Kashmir\u2019s far-off village Karhama, died while looking for her son who was arrested during a crackdown in 1990. Her son, Mohammad Yaqub Khan, was a laborer. Misra Begum of Bemina\u2019s Boatman Colony died in the desolation of her only son, Shabbir Hussain Gasi, who was arrested by the Indian Army on January 21, 2000. Hameeda Parveen died in 2012 after searching from pillar to post with the hope that her son would one day return home. Details indicate that her son, Abid Hussain, was a student. Zoona Begum, hailing from Rajbagh, whose son disappeared in May 1996 when he was detained after forces raided his house. Her son, Imtiyaz Ahmad, was a forester.<\/p>\n
Zoona died in 2011 while waiting for her son to return home. Haleema Begum, hailing from the Batamaloo area, died in February 2020. She struggled for two and a half decades in search of her son, Basharat Ahmad Shah, who was studying at Aligarh Muslim University, India. Basharat was arrested on January 7, 1990, by Indian paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force personnel from the Sopore area.<\/p>\n
In May 2025, Indian Army shelling on the civilian population in the Khuiratta sector and Bagh of Kotli district in Azad Jammu and Kashmir martyred four people, including a 40-day-old baby and her mother, and seriously injured five women and two children. India shelled heavily in the village of Gora in Khuiratta, where Samra Asif, wife of Asif Khurshid, was martyred along with her 40-day-old baby and Raja Shehpal in Balial, while five people were injured.<\/p>\n
The United Nations and other global bodies working for women\u2019s rights must take note of the sufferings of Kashmiri mothers in the occupied territory, the report maintained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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