Level of violence, torture, HR violations in IOJK under Modi regime unprecedented.

ISLAMABAD -- Kashmir is no stranger to Indian state repression. Since 1947, successive Indian governments have brutalized Kashmiris and denied them their right to self-determination.

'Yet the level of violence, torture and human rights violations being committed by Indian security forces under the Modi government now is unprecedented - even for Kashmir,' an article published in a US daily newspaper The Washington Times said.

At a time when other countries are facilitating the free flow, exchange and sharing of information to fight the pandemic, India has imprisoned Kashmiris in an information black hole.

As if this was not enough, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has sneakily introduced a new ordinance to effect demographic change in Kashmir [Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir], believing that the world would be too distracted to notice, the article added,

In August 2019, India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party tried to annex the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

With the stroke of a pen, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government made a mockery of international law, undid decades of international diplomacy, violated its own constitutional commitments and pulled the rug out from underneath the Kashmiri people, it added.

Kashmir had already been under a state of continuous siege for the past nine months. Now, the novel coronavirus pandemic has given India another excuse to impose a lockdown within a lockdown. Kashmir is, in effect, under a 'double lockdown,' the article noted.

An article published in the Global Village Space, a news portal, viewed that India's hostility towards Pakistan and Kashmiris grew phenomenally after Modi took over power in June 2014.

In IOK (Indian Occupied Kashmir), the Kashmiri youth were systematically eliminated. Rape was used as a weapon of war and pellet guns were...