When we think of everyday essentials, we often picture the obvious: our morning coffee, the phone in our pocket or the roof over our heads. Yet, the most fundamental necessities of life are those we barely notice until they are taken away: the air we breathe without restriction, the water we drink without fear, and the simple freedom to walk down the street without intimidation. These are not privileges or conveniences; they are basic human rights, woven into the fabric of human dignity. For the people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), however, these essentials have been transformed into distant luxuries, systematically denied through force, fear and repression. What should have been ordinary has become unattainable in the Indian occupied Kashmir.
Each year, Kashmir Solidarity Day (Feb.
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