Indian military deployment in IoK largest troops concentration in any occupied territory: Masood

MIRPUR (AJK): Aug 03 (APP):Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan Saturday said the number of Indian troops deployed in Kashmir had risen to more than 800,000 making it the largest concentration of armed troops in any occupied territory or any conflict zone, now or in the past.

Addressing a press conference in Muzaffarabad, he said a sinister plan had been drawn up by India to reduce the numbers of Muslim electorate through new delimitation of the constituencies, land grab by non-Kashmiris through the use of banking laws and long-term leases to industrialists from India to “promote investment”.

The purpose of the moves, he said , was to flood Jammu and Kashmir with Indian nationals to change the demographic composition of the territory, marginalize Muslim population and crush the freedom movement.