Islamabad- In the darkness of the prison, dozens of political prisoners in the Indian part disappear from KashmirAnd, which was “by force” to the Indian authority in 2019.
Many leaders and activists suffer from Kashmiri resistance in the Jammu and Kashmir region, harsh human conditions that threaten their lives in light of the emphasis on them within the Indian measures in the region. Their suffering includes deprivation of visits, neglect and the prevention of medical examination, which led to serious diseases.
Among the detainees is Abdel Hamid Fayyad, the Emir of the Islamic Group in Jammu and Kashmir (the Indian part of Kashmir), who is behind bars amid mysterious health conditions and depriving him of contacting his family.
Pakistani condemnation
The Emir of the group in the Pakistani Kashmir condemned Mushtaq Ahmed Khan – in a statement that Al -Jazeera Net obtained a copy of it – the “unjust” detention of Fayyad, saying that the Indian authorities insist on his deliberate deprivation of medical treatment and care.
The Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs also condemned – last Friday – the continued detention of Kashmiri political prisoners in Indian prisons, referring to the leader Shapir Shah, who suffers from prostate cancer, and denounced the refusal of an Indian court to release him on bail despite his illness, which she said was difficult to treat in the “prison environment”.
For his part, the official of the foreign relations of the Islamic Group in the Pakistani part of Kashmir Khaled Mahmoud Khan – to Al -Jazeera Net – said that these strict measures came immediately after the arrest of all Kashmiri leaders, led by Yassin Malik, Jabir Shah and Abdel Hamid Fayyad, after the abolition of the government of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Kashmir status in 2019.
Khan added that Fayyad “stood with full force against the Indian decision to include the region, and appealed to the Kashmiri people to stand against this unjust decision, because of which the Kashmiri resistance movement was eliminated.”
According to him, the Kashmiri leaders are prohibited from visits, including family visits, and medical treatment and suffer difficult health conditions, to the extent that a number of them do not know what diseases have been affected. He pointed out that Shapir Shah suffers from prostate cancer, while Abdel Hamid Fayyad needs urgent surgery.
He explained that the former Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Habiba Mufti, and the former head of the Kashmiri Parties Alliance, Mir Omar Farouk, demanded the Indian government to provide the necessary treatment for Fayyad.
He stressed that what the Indian authorities do “against the Kashmiri leaders is a clear violation of human rights, which any political prisoner in the world must have.”
Essential
According to Khaled Khan, the Indian government prohibits fully communicating between the Kashmiris in the Indian and Pakistani parts, noting that some families in the Indian Kashmir are preventing communication with their relatives in the Pakistani part, and this is considered a crime.
He also added that Islamic Group In the Pakistani Kashmir, it cannot communicate with its counterpart in the Indian part, after India took control of the Jamo and Kashmir region, and all its activities and activities of the Kashmiri resistance are prohibited.
On the role of the group in the Kashmiri resistance, Khaled Khan said that it is essential, because it was since the first day of the “occupation” of the region did not recognize Indian control, and practiced peaceful resistance through its schools and various political activities, similar to the role of the group “to the role of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) in Palestine“.
According to Khaled Khan, the group had a clear role in spreading awareness among the Kashmiris of the illegality of Indian control over Jammu and Kashmir, and demanded the right of the Kashmiri people to self -determination and join Pakistan or India, and “this is what it decided United Nations“.
He stated that about 80% of the “martyrs” and the wounded in the region are from the Islamic Group, and considered it the largest resistance organization operating in Jammu and Kashmir.
For his part, the political analyst specializing in the Kashmiri affairs, Khawaja Kashef Mir, said that this group has always been the ideological spine of the Kashmiri resistance, and it has deep roots in education, social welfare and political mobilization, as it has emerged from its ranks such as leaders Syed Shadoli Sahrai supervised, as she was running hundreds of schools and social programs before it was banned in 2019.
Mir added – to Al Jazeera Net – that after August 2019, India banned the group under the “anti -terrorism law”, arrested more than 3 thousand members and seized more than 200 institutions.
Strategic step
The Director of the Indian Studies Department at the Institute of Strategic Studies in Islamabad, Khuram Abbas, says that, from the Pakistani point of view, it was a major ideological, educational and organizational pillar of the Kashmiri resistance movement. She has gained her popular networks and its support for the right to self -determination between young people and intellectuals.
Abbas – to Al Jazeera Net – added that Pakistan believes that India’s ban on the group and the suppression of its members is an attempt to dismantle social and political infrastructure that support the resistance. From this perspective, its weakening is a strategic step on the part of New Delhi to tear the internal cohesion of the Kashmiri movement.
Since the announcement of the control of Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019, New Delhi has taken many measures to prohibit the Kashmiri political groups and movements rejecting the Indian occupation of Kashmir.
In this context, Kashef Mir says that the use of the Public Safety Law, which allows detention without trial for up to two years, is still a basic legal tool for repression. He explained that in 2023 alone, more than 500 Kashmiri was seized under the Public Security Law and was transferred to distant Indian prisons, which actually resulted in isolating them from their families.
According to Abbas, Pakistan believes that the recent escalation of Indian procedures – especially since the monoism it took on the fifth of August 2019 – is part of a deliberate strategy to crush the Kashmiri resistance and change the demographic character of the region.
He added that the increasing militarization, the suppression of the opposition, the restriction of civil freedoms, and the suppression of the media aims to silence the voices of self -determination, and “but what is happening is the opposite, as these measures have increased the determination of the Kashmiris to resist the Indian occupation.”