Kashmiri Pandits are victims of India`s plan of demographic change in Kashmir

The Kashmir Global Council condemns in the strongest terms India’s systematic dismantling of democracy, human rights, and dignity in Jammu and Kashmir. For decades, India has masqueraded as the “world’s largest democracy” while perpetuating a brutal military occupation in Kashmir, reducing its claims of pluralism and justice to a hollow facade.

Kashmir today is a land suffocated under the boots of hundreds of thousands of Indian troops stationed in civilian areas, turning our villages and towns into open-air prisons. Vast tracts of land, resources, and livelihoods have been seized under the guise of “security,” erasing the line between civilian life and militarization. The so-called elected government in Kashmir exists only to legitimize this oppression, stripped of all authority and rendered a puppet regime beholden to New Delhi’s dictates.

Laws like the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and the Public Safety Act (PSA)—tools of colonial-era repression—grant Indian forces impunity to kill, detain, and disappear Kashmiris with no accountability. Thousands of Kashmiri youths languish in far-flung prisons, denied due process, while families are torn apart by exile and displacement.

The up rooting of Kashmiri Pandits and Hindus in the 1990s remains an unhealed wound, with survivors scattered across India, denied justice of repatriation, and reparations.
India’s tyranny extends to silencing dissent. Leaders and activists who dare speak truth to power are barred from their homeland, their families persecuted, and their voices criminalized.

Meanwhile, New Delhi squanders billions in taxpayer funds to whitewash its crimes globally, diverting resources needed to uplift India’s impoverished masses—all to shield its atrocities in Kashmir from scrutiny.
This is not democracy. This is occupation.

We call on the international community to end its complicit silence. India’s flagrant violations of international law, and its own constitutional promises cannot be ignored. We demand:
1. Immediate demilitarization of Kashmir and return of usurped land and resources to locals.
2. Repeal of draconian laws like AFSPA and PSA, and release of all political prisoners.
3. Right of return for displaced Kashmiri Pandits, Hindus, and all exiled communities with guarantees of safety and restitution.
4. Internationally supervised dialogue between true representative formed from grass root level as Senate of people of Indian controlled Kashmir and India- People of Pakistan controlled Kashmir including Gilgit Baltistan and Pakistan, to honor the Kashmiri people’s inalienable right to restore its sovereignty and Independence which was lost by invasion of armed forces of its neighbouring countries India and Pakistan in 1947 and China in 1963.
India’s claim to democracy will remain a lie until Kashmiris are free to determine their future. The Kashmir Global Council urges global governments, human rights bodies, and conscientious citizens to stand with Kashmir against this injustice. The time for action is now.

Farooq Siddiqi
President, Kashmir Global Council
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