Kashmir issue after the 2025 war by Adv Rehana Ali (15th July 2025)
I believe, we stand today at a dangerous crossroads not only for South Asia but for the entire world. The conflict in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir is highlighted again after the recent conventional war between India and Pakistan on 9th May 2025, and the tragic Pahalgam incident on 22nd April 2025 that cost 26 innocent lives has brought us dangerously close to a nuclear flashpoint.
India and Pakistan are nuclear-armed nations. It is established any escalation is a threat not just to Jammu and Kashmir on both sides, but to the global peace. Kashmiris call upon on the United Nations and international community to launch a partial but urgent investigation into the Pahalgam incident to establish transparency, accountability, and to prevent the spread of false narratives that could lead to war although there is a ceasefire in place at the moment.
India, under Narendra Modi, is led by a man often is described as “2-in-1”, both the Prime Minister of India and the global ambassador of Hindutva extremism. Modi’s association with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which dreams of an “Akhand Bharat” (Greater India), represents a grave ideological threat.
This supremacist agenda undermines minorities not only in India but throughout South Asia especially Jammu and Kashmir. One reason in South Asia “India out” campaigns were launched by Bangladesh and Maldives also other states isolating India for its cross boarder terrorism. This Hindutva ideology, is not limited to India but spread through it’s Western offshoot, the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS), which operates actively in:
•The United Kingdom
•The United States
•Canada
•Australia
•And throughout Europe
The UK’s Channel 4’s investigations also confirmed these networks:
•Brainwash youth by introducing Yoga
•Join politics to recruit members for HSS
•Promote hatred and violence, which I believe is through Bollywood movies
Furthermore, India stands accused of state-sponsored terrorism through assassination plots targeting Sikhs and Kashmiri activists in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and Pakistan.
Stolen Uranium and water terrorism are threats beyond borders. There have been over 30 reported incidents in the last two decades of stolen or trafficked uranium from Indian nuclear facilities sold in the world black markets. This represents a threat not only to the world peace and human existence, but also to India’s internal stability, where more than 19 separatist freedom movements exist, including:
•Muslim-majority Kashmir
•Sikh-majority Punjab
•Christian-minority Manipur and Nagaland
•South India with different states, gods, cultures and languages
India must be warned from laying down the precedent of war terrorism like it laid down the precedent of Suicide bombing in Sri Lanka in 1980’s, India’s claim to stop water to Pakistan can’t be justified because water is the foundation to life and the water in question belongs to Jummu and Kashmir not India. India has no right, which also confirms India is using Kashmiris resources without their consent and has no respect for human lives.
Kashmiri women rape through impunity and the recent global confirmation supports their cry against rape by Indians. Kashmiri women have never been safe, not in Jammu and Kashmir, nor in India. Rape has been used as a weapon of war by occupying forces since the last seven decades. Recently, the United States also issued a travel advisory urging females not to travel alone to India due to increasing numbers of rape crimes against foreigners. This confirms what rape survivors local and foreigners have stated. Please note India’s rape crisis are protected by:
•Impunity law like AFSPA introduced in 1957 and updated in 1991 in Jammu & Kashmir
•Untouchability and caste-driven shielding by Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989
•Political protection from the BJP and RSS networks run by the Hindutva brain children
Even Congress leader Rahul Gandhi called Delhi the “Rape Capital of the World.” If Indian women are unsafe in their capital, what of Kashmiri women living under occupation?
We remember Kashmir Martyrs and prisoners by honouring their voices:
The imprisoned or silenced Kashmiri leadership, human rights activists and journalists:
•Yasin Malik
•Dr. Qasim Faktoo
•Shabir Ahmed Shah
•Khurram Parvez
•Asif Sultan
•Sajad Gul
•Aasiya Andrabi
•Altaf Shah
•Musarat Alam Bhat
Martyred by the occupation:
• Muqbul Butt
• Afzal Guru
•Syed Ali Shah Geelani
•Ashraf Sehrai
The remains of Muqbul Butt and Afzal till present on the request of their family and the Kashmiris haven’t been returned, they’re buried in the notorious, Tihar Jail known for dangerous criminals, this is a violation of Article 17, the First Geneva Convention, transportation of remains.
Non-Kashmiri human rights defenders:
•Arundhati Roy
•Medha Patkar
•Kumar Vishwas
•Saifuddin Soz
It’s important to globally highlight the illegal human rights violations and the nullity of the Simla Agreement 1972.
India continues to violate:
•The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 (UDHR)
•The Geneva Conventions (1949)
•UN Security Council Resolutions 47, 51 & 91
The Simla Agreement 1972, was signed under duress after the 1971 war between India and Pakistan, it took place without Kashmiris consent, which is considered void under the international law and recently confirmed by Pakistan. Any agreement can’t override Kashmiri people’s right to self-determination or the 18 passed UNSCR till present.
The Kashmir issue again will be debated in the UK House of Lords on 17 July 2025. I humbly request that these pressing points, human rights violations, nuclear threats, crimes against women, and the Hindutva ideology be fully raised and addressed.
My six humble appeals to the British Parliament:
1.Launch an independent international investigation into the Pahalgam incident.
2.Reinforce calls for a UN-supervised plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir.
3.Ban the Hindutva ideology, which mirrors Nazism, by globally sanctioning RSS and HSS networks.
4.Hold India accountable for uranium trafficking and its growing nuclear instability endangering the world existence.
5.Support and amplify the voices of Kashmiri political prisoners, martyred activists, and exiled freedom defenders.
6.India must be restrained by the UNSC and the World Bank of Water Terrorism, which could set a precedent in the world.
This is a call to the UK and the world to remind them, UK is a permanent member of the UN Security Council (P5), a founding voice in the Commonwealth, and a state with universal jurisdiction under international law, the United Kingdom must act:
• Stop trade deals till human rights violations doesn’t stop
•Use it’s universal jurisdiction powers to pursue sanctions and legal accountability for India’s routine war crimes in Kashmir.
•Commence prosecution of India at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and refer individuals to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for:
◦Use of rape as a weapon of war
◦Extra-judicial killings
◦Forced disappearances
◦Violation of UN resolutions
◦Suppression of journalists and activists
◦Nuclear trafficking negligence and water terrorism
This is not just a regional issue, this is a test of the international justice and the UK’s values. Justice delayed is not just justice denied but it is a world threat. The time to stand with Kashmir is now no later to stop genocide.
