Kashmiri Americans Protest at Times Square Against Indian Occupation of IIOJK

New York: Kashmiri Americans, joined by friends of Kashmir including women and children, staged a peaceful demonstration at Times Square, New York, denouncing India’s settler colonialism in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, organized by the Kashmiri American Community of the New York Metropolitan Area, the protest featured placards calling for an end to Indian occupation of Kashmir and release of all political prisoners besides voicing support for Kashmiris’ right to self-determination.
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Chairman of the World Forum for Peace and Justice, condemned India’s revocation of Articles 370 and 35A, calling it an act of aggression violating UN Security Council Resolutions 91 and 122. He also criticized Western complicity and praised Indian voices like Arundhati Roy and Yashwant Sinha for supporting human rights in Kashmir. Dr. Fai emphasized India’s imprisonment of Hurriyat leaders like Muhammad Yasin Malik, Masarrat Aalam Butt and Aasiya Andrabi as part of its crackdown on dissent. Speakers including Raja Mukhtar (JKLF), Sardar Taj Khan (Kashmir Mission USA), Rt. Major Arif Naveed, Chowdhary Maqbool Ahmed Gujjar (Azad Kashmir Assembly), and Advocate Imtiaz Khan Garalevi highlighted India’s demographic engineering, human rights abuses, and suppression of press freedom.
Social worker Ms. Safura Wasim termed Indian democracy a delusion, while human rights activists Sardar Sajid Sawar and Ataul Zafar emphasized global responsibility to amplify Kashmir’s voice.
Other speakers, including Saghir Khan (Kashmiri American Alliance), Shahid Comrade (Pakistan-USA Freedom Forum), Faiz Khalid Quraishi, and Sister Amna Habib, called for global attention to the suffering in occupied Kashmir and unconditional release of all Kashmiri political prisoners.
The event reinforced the Kashmiri diaspora’s commitment to justice and resistance against Indian occupation.