Srinagar: Indian forces in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred one Kashmiri youth in Pulwama district of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday.

The youth was martyred by Indian troops, paramilitary and police personnel during a cordon and search operation in Baragam area of the district, today. The operation was going on till last reports came in. The authorities sealed all entry and exit points of the area and suspended internet mobile services.

All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has expressed concern over the upsurge in ethnic cleansing of the Kashmiris, who have been forcibly occupied and subdued by India since 1947. The APHC spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar strongly condemned the wide range illegal construction of residential buildings for non-state subjects in the name of migrant Pandit community and termed it a well-thought-out ploy of India to change the demography of the territory.

Since all the land laws have been repealed to demolish the blockades in this way, he warned that the people of Kashmir have never accepted military aggression and forcible occupation as testified by its glorious history. The spokesman, hailing the valour and exemplary steadfastness of the freedom-loving people of Kashmir, added that the prevailing graveyard-like silence imposed by over one million Indian forces in IIOJK is a delusion for the fascist regime of India.