Srinagar: Indian army has launched a massive military operation on both sides of Muslim majority Pir Panjal range, which separates the Kashmir Valley from hilly districts Jammu region in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to a report by Kashmir Media Service on Sunday, the operation named ‘Sarv Shakti’, which means Omnipotence, has been simultaneously launched in Shopian and Pulwama districts on one side and in Rajouri and Poonch districts on the other side of the Lower Himalayan region. The operation is aimed at silencing the pro-freedom voices in the Kashmir valley as well as in Jammu region. ‘Operation Sarvshakti’ is being jointly carried out by Srinagar-based Chinar Corps and the Nagrota-Jammu-based White Knight Corps. The personnel of Central Reserve Police Force and Special Operations Group and intelligence agencies are also part of the Indian army’s grand operation.
Meanwhile, APHC leaders including Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori, Muhammad Saleem Zargar, Advocate Arshad Iqbal, Hafza Bano and Shafiqur Rehman in their separate statements in Srinagar urged the United Nations Human Rights Council, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other international human rights organizations to send teams to occupied Jammu and Kashmir to take an on-spot assessment of the plight of Kashmiri detainees, languishing in different jails. The leaders lamented that non Kashmiris were being facilitated to buy land and property in IIOJK to change its demography.
An Indian Central Reserve Police Force constable committed suicide in Awantipora area of Pulwama district, today. This has raised the number of such deaths among Indian troops and police personnel to 592 since January 2007 in the occupied territory.
On the other hand, unusual weather pattern continues in occupied Jammu and Kashmir this winter as Srinagar recorded maximum of 15.0°C on weekend, the warmest day in 14 years in the middle of ‘Chillai-Kalan’, the otherwise harshest winter period which ends on January 30. A meteorological department official said not only Srinagar, maximum temperature at many stations recorded 6-8°C above normal with highest maximum temperature recorded over Banihal station at 20.8°C followed by Srinagar, 15°C while Jammu recorded 8.9°C.
APHC-AJK chapter in a statement issued in Islamabad strongly condemned the ongoing killings, arrests, desecration of women and destruction of houses and other properties by Indian troops in the occupied territory.
