The All Parties Hurriyat Conference  says India has been treating Jammu and Kashmir as its colony since 1947, ruling territory through military might and denying its people their UN-recognized right to self-determination.

In a statement from Srinagar Central Jail, incarcerated All Parties Hurriyat Conference leader, Bilal Ahmed Siddiqui said, the RSS-BJP regime led by Narendra Modi has intensified settler colonial project by facilitating settlement of non-locals in occupied territory.

He said India continues to rule the occupied territory through force, coercion and deceit.

Meanwhile, protests erupted in Jammu’s Reasi district against construction of the Vaishno Devi ropeway project, which locals said threatens to displace them from their ancestral land. 

At the same time, the occupation authorities have intensified efforts to impose Hindi across administrative departments a move widely seen as part of the Hindutva-driven agenda to marginalize Urdu and erode the region’s linguistic and cultural identity.

On the international front, India’s actions in Kashmir continue to draw criticism.

In New York, digital mobile trucks organized by the World Kashmir Awareness Forum highlighted the Kashmir cause and urged the United Nations to implement its resolutions on the dispute.