ISLAMABAD: When the whole world was observing Mother’s Day, thousands of Kashmiri women in Indian Occupied Kashmir continue to wait for the return of their sons killed in fake encounters or subjected to disappearance in custody by Indian troops in occupied Kashmir over the past 29 years.

According to a report, the continued Indian state terrorism had resulted in killing of 95,002 Kashmiris including women and children from 1989 to 11th of May 2018.

As many as 22,873 women have been widowed by the Indian forces and 11,071 women were raped, disgraced or molested during the period, Kashmir Media Service reported.

55-year-old resistance leader, Syeda Aasiya Andrabi, Fehmeeda Sofi, Nahida Nasreen are illegally detained in Central Jail, Srinagar.

The report pointed out that the troops had subjected over 8,000 Kashmiris to custodial disappearance during the period and the mothers of majority of these disappeared people had been waiting for their return.

Second Sunday of May is observed as Mother’s Day since 1914 as a result of continued efforts by Anna Jarvis, daughter of Ann Reeves Jarvis, a peace activist in, West Virginia, the United States, for her mother’s contributions towards the society.—APP