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Apr 4, 2023 16 tweets 4 min read
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4th April The darkest day in Kashmiri history 💔
Story told by my mother 😭
April 4 was no less than an apocalypse for us.
My mother says I was sleeping when a servant ( Gul kak) knocked the door and said get up someone is demolishing your house.
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#Kashmir My mother says that I did not sleep that night because one of my son was not well. My father had left 2 days ago for Islamic preaching.
My mother says that when I heared that someone was demolishing our house, I started to come out and when I saw the scene, it was a scene
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Apr 2, 2023 20 tweets 4 min read
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Authoritarianism, persecution of minorities put India at risk of tearing apart.
The state-sponsored persecution of minorities and mob violence has put the Narendra Modi’s India of today at the risk of tearing itself apart.
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#MinortiesInIndiaUnderAttack The hate crimes and violence against minorities including Muslims, Christians, Dalit and others were on constant surge being provoked by ruling BJP leaders, backed the discriminatory legislation and also stamped by the Indian judiciary.

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Mar 30, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Journalist Rayees Butt remembered on his martyrdom anniversary.

Several journalists and members of civil society paid rich tributes and condolences to martyred journalist, Rayees Ahmad Butt, on his first martyrdom anniversary.
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#Kashmir Image Indian troops martyred a young Kashmiri freelance journalist, Rayees Ahmad Butt along with a youth during a cordon and search operation on this day last year in Rainawari area of the Srinagar city.

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Mar 24, 2023 9 tweets 2 min read
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International day for the right to the truth concerning gross HRWs and for the dignity of victums.

The Indian security forces are also accused of many massacres. Some of them include:
Gawakadal massacre: On 21 January 1990,
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#Kashmir 51 civilians were killed by CRPF troopers during protests against earlier raids in which wanton arrests and molestation of women were conducted by CRPF troops.
Handwara massacre: On 25 January 1990, two BSF patrolling parties in Handwara indiscriminately fired at
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Mar 23, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
I prayed for a strong, prosperous, stable and safe Pakistan 🇵🇰

The Pakistan and the people of Jammu and Kashmir are one nation with similarities in everything and will achieve together completion of Partition Plan after freedom of
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#PakistanDay2023
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#Kashmir freedom of Jammu and Kashmir from India.

The Pakistan would never leave Kashmiri brethren in the lurch in any circumstances and will continue to support the Kashmir Cause through thick and thin. Pakistan is a centre of hope for the oppressed Kashmiri people as well as
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Mar 20, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
Oldest Mosque in India : Barwada mosque in Ghogha ,Gujarat

The Qibla is towards Jerusalem. This reflects the fact that this mosque must have been erected much before Prophet's (PBUH) declaration that direction to Kaaba be treated as qibla.
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#India Image Barwada means non-locals or foreigners.The 15 x 40 ft mosque is located in the ancient port town of Ghogha.Part of Bhavnagar district, Ghogha is situated on the mid-western bank of the Gulf of Khambhat, a commercial port for centuries
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Mar 20, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
Our Freedom Icon always stands with sikh community.
Syed Ali Shah Geelani (on 19 June, 2012) demanded that the Chittisinghpura massacre should be probed into by some international institution and those involved in it should be punished.
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#Chattisinghporamassacre
#Kashmir ImageImage “The innocent members of Sikh community were brutally killed at the time when the then US president was visiting New Delhi. The massacre was carried out to mislead the international community about the Kashmir movement and link it with terrorism,”
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Mar 15, 2023 22 tweets 4 min read
Article: In Kashmir, Indian bulldozers are now carrying out settler-colonial policy.

Bricks are falling amid a cloud of dust onto the snow-covered roads. Wailing can be heard in the background. Bulldozers are moving in, aiming to bury a long struggle for freedom.
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#Kashmir The scenes might be akin to the Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes, but this time we are witnessing India’s settler-colonial policy in Kashmir.

Videos emerge from Kashmir each day, showing bulldozers ploughing through residential and non-residential areas,
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Mar 14, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
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India is using desecration of Kashmiri women as a weapon of war
Kashmiri women & the Indian military rule:
Thousands of women in Kashmir have become a story of helplessness and cruelty.
Shazia kashmiri woman said that the CRPF officer was kissing her inside
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#Kashmir The vehicle and asking her to perform oral sex on him." When I refused, he exposed my private parts and threw his body on me.
He started slapping me, so many times I fainted. I don't know what happened but when i opened my eyes i found my self beside my mother,
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Mar 14, 2023 16 tweets 3 min read
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‘modi’s repressive media policies destroying kashmiri journalism’*

The owner of a sealed newspaper in indian-occupied kashmir says prime minister narendra modi’s repressive media policies are destroying kashmiri journalism,
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#Kashmir intimidating media outlets into serving as government mouthpieces and creating an information vacuum in our region of about 13 million people, as india descends into authoritarianism.

anuradha bhasin, executive editor of the kashmir times, whose offices in srinagar were
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Mar 13, 2023 23 tweets 4 min read
In Kashmir, Indian bulldozers are now carrying out settler-colonial policy

Straight from the Israeli playbook, India is brutalising Kashmiris, demolishing homes it claims have been built illegally on 'state land'
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 #Kashmir Bulldozers are moving in, aiming to bury a long struggle for freedom. The scenes might be akin to the Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes, but this time we are witnessing India's settler-colonial policy in Kashmir.
Videos emerge from Kashmir each day,
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Mar 12, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
Modi can’t hide IIOJK ground situation by resorting to propaganda.
Modi-led fascist Indian government cannot hide the reality about the deteriorating ground situation in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir by resorting to propaganda through its pliant media.
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#Kashmir Image Modi regime is trying to mislead world by using its propaganda machinery and publishing fake reports of the so-called peace and development in the occupied territory. By doing so, New Delhi aims to divert the attention of the international community from its atrocities
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Mar 11, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
The Human Rights Crisis in Kashmir
A Pattern of Impunity

With the bloody genocide of kashmiri muslims in Indian occupied Kashmir now in its fourth year, Indian troops have embarked on a “catch and kill” campaign against Muslim militants, resulting in a sharp 1/n
#Kashmir escalation of human rights abuses, including summary executions of hundreds of detainees in the custody of security forces. Indian troops have also engaged in reprisal attacks against civilians, assaults on medical workers, rape, torture and arson.
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Mar 11, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
@DrSyedSehrish
want to remind you,
What is woman exploitation!
You will never talk about this because you are the mouth piece of hindutva ideology.
Asifa - a 7 y/o muslim nomadic girl from kashmir who was abducted, gang-raped, kiled, & buried in premises of a hindu temple
1/n Her sex organs mutilated,her nails turned black and chest blue. She was confined in a local temple for many days & given sedatives that kept her unconscious. she was "raped for days, tortured & then finally murdered". She was strangled to death & then hit on the head with a
Mar 10, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
Kashmiri women & the Indian military rule:
A friend recently told me something & I still can't get over it. (hiding his name due to security issues)
I remember an ordeal shared by my cousin sometime back. She was visiting a gynecologist in Srinagar for a routine checkup.
#Kashmir A young woman in her thirties wearing a traditional Kashmiri veil had traveled from a village 70 kms from Srinagar accompanied by her husband. She was sitting next to my cousin and waiting for her appointment. 2/n
Mar 10, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
‘My thoughts will kill me one day’: mental health crisis for Kashmiri women.

Three decades of genocide in the kashmir valley have resulted in a drastic surge in mental health issues, especially among women.

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#Kashmir Shamshada was engrossed in conversation after lunch at her cousins’ house in 2016, when, all of a sudden, she thought the room was filling with smoke.

The 40-year-old stood up and screamed: “There’s a fire in this room!” 2/n
Mar 9, 2023 29 tweets 6 min read
Thousands of women in Kashmir have become a story of helplessness and cruelty. One of them is 16-year-old Mumtaz of Kastigarh Doda. Her father Ghulam Mohammad Butt knocked on everyone's door for justice. But justice did not get and thus he was buried 1/n
#Kashmir in 2020 at the age of 91 years with this pain and suffering in his chest.
Ghulam Mohammad Butt's two daughters were studying at the Higher Secondary School in Kastigarh, 16-year-old Mumtazha had completed her 10th standard in the early months of 2000, Mumtazha had to walk 2/n
Mar 8, 2023 31 tweets 6 min read
Lost Dreams of Kashmiri Women

Mumtaza's sibling, mother still believes that Mumtza is still alive.

Today is International Women's Day. Thousands of women in occupied Jammu and Kashmir were victims of terrorism at the hands of Indian armed forces. 1/n
#InternationalWomensDay Image The Indian army raped women aged 80 to 80 years as a war tactic. One of the important incidents is Kunan Pooshpura, many of whom did not get justice and even died. Today I am writing about that daughter from Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir whose name was Mumtza. 2/n
Mar 7, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
India is using desecration of Kashmiri women as a weapon of war: Musrat Alam
On the occasion of International Women's Day, the detained Chairman of All-Party Hurriyat Conference, Musrat Alam Butt, has strongly condemned the atrocities of the occupying Indian 1/n
#Kashmir Image forces on Kashmiri women and said that India is using the desecration of Kashmiri women as a weapon of war.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Musrat Alam Butt, in a message from Tihar Jail in New Delhi, appealed to Kashmiris and humanitarians living all over the world, 2/n