Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Vice President and Senator Sherry Rehman on Saturday condemned the Indian government’s ban on Kashmiri historical and resistance literature and denotes the “worst example of fascism.”
In a statement, Rehman said the move was a direct attack on the intellectual freedom of Kashmiris and reflected what she described as India’s undemocratic ambitions.
She noticed that suppression of the story does not erase facts and that sound -absorbing free expressions exposed “fascist tendencies.”
The PPP leader claimed that New Delhi’s policies pressed Kashmiri youth into “intellectual slavery” and that such prohibitions injured India’s global reputation.
She added that any attempt to suppress the truth has failed in history, and “India will also fail,” to claim that confiscation of books was an attempt to erase Kashmiri identity that could not be obtained through ban.
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Earlier, police in Indian illegal Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) occupied bookstores after authorities banned 25 books, including one of Booker award winner Arundhati Roy and said the titles “Excite Secessionism” in the disputed Muslim majority region.
The raids came after the government accused the authors of spreading “false tales” of Kashmir, “while playing a critical role in misleading the youth” against the Indian state.
“The operation targeted materials that promote a secessionist ideologies or glorify terrorism,” police said in a statement on social media. “Public cooperation is requested to maintain peace and integrity,” it said.
Authorities also seized Islamic literature from bookstores and home following a similar directive in February.
