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Lives Taken at Gunpoint, Stories of Kashmiri Victims
A public movement of unarmed citizens has been ongoing in Pakistan-administered Kashmir for the past two and a half months, protesting for their basic human and economic rights. In response to this demand for rights, a complete blockade has been imposed across the state. Despite the shutdown of the internet, severe shortage of food and medicines, crackdowns and shutter-downs, central sit-ins are being held in various areas including Rawalakot.
During this public movement, hundreds of citizens have been killed, hundreds injured due to direct firing by Pakistani forces, and countless people have been forcibly disappeared or arrested and imprisoned in various jails, where their families are not even allowed to meet them.
Kashgal News is presenting the true stories of these unarmed civilians and their bereaved families in the form of a video and written series. Kashgil News
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Osama Jamil: The last struggle of a PhD student holding a white flag
Several protesters were killed in alleged firing by forces during the long march of the banned Jammu Kashmir Joint Public Action Committee on July 27 and 28 in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Among them was Osama Jamil, a PhD student at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.
Osama Jamil was studying in the third semester of his PhD in the Department of Geology. He had returned to his native village from Islamabad about a week before the long march.
According to Osama’s brother Tauseef Jamil, Osama graduated in Geology from Jamia Poonch, after which he completed his MPhil from Quaid-e-Azam University and was continuing his PhD studies there.
Tauseef Jamil says that on July 28, during the long march, the forces allegedly opened fire on the protesters at sunset. According to him, Osama had a white flag in his hand and was rescuing the injured protesters.
At the same time, a bullet hit Osama in the head and he died on the spot.
Osama’s friend Babar Ashfaq calls him a fearless person. According to him, he and his friends were with Osama from the first day of the protest that began on June 5.
Babar Ashfaq says that Osama is not among them today, but the echo of his slogans can still be heard around the world.
A young researcher, a friend and a fearless protester Osama Jamil’s journey ended with him holding a white flag, but his voice left a question behind.
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