u/humairaqadri

Kashmir’s local media ecosystem is completely compromised. Every major news channel, online portal, and working journalist in the Valley appears to be on the government’s payroll or under heavy pressure. Their job has become singular — to relentlessly push the official narrative of “normalcy”, “development”, and “peace” while completely ignoring or whitewashing the ground realities.You will not find a single independent news outlet in Kashmir today that is willing to publish anything critical about the Indian Army’s actions, the policies of mainstream politicians, or the RSS-backed changes happening on the ground. Real, fearless journalism has been systematically eliminated.From morning bulletins to prime time shows, the script is identical across channels:

• “Kashmir is normal”
• “Tourism is booming”
• “People are happy with the changes after Article 370”
• “Development projects are transforming the region”

But when you speak to ordinary Kashmiris off the record, a very different and much darker picture emerges — one that never makes it to these “news” platforms.This is not journalism. This is state-sponsored propaganda machinery operating in the garb of media. Local outlets have essentially become an extension of the government’s Public Relations department.Major outlets like Greater Kashmir, Rising Kashmir, Kashmir Observer, Daily Excelsior, KNS, and others rarely, if ever, carry reports that challenge the official line. Independent voices have been sidelined, threatened, or forced to fall in line.The result? A complete media blackout on uncomfortable truths. The people of Kashmir are being fed a one-sided story while the world is shown a carefully curated image of peace and prosperity.If you are from Kashmir, follow Kashmir affairs, or believe in press freedom — please share this post widely. Tag local media houses and journalists and ask them simple questions:

• Why is there zero space for dissenting voices?
• Why can’t you report both sides of the story?
• Who is actually controlling the narrative?

It’s time to expose this puppet media system operating in Kashmir.#Kashmir #KashmirMedia #MediaBias #PressFreedom #India

This is absolutely disgusting.A female performer is being openly groped and manhandled on stage during a public event in Andhra Pradesh, while the crowd watches. No one from the organizers or security is intervening. This is not the first time we’re seeing such incidents at these local shows.Women in India still don’t feel safe even while doing their job in front of hundreds of people. This kind of shameless harassment keeps happening repeatedly — at festivals, events, public transport, streets… when is this going to stop?We need stricter laws, better security at such events, and actual societal change. Just outrage on social media isn’t enough anymore. What’s your take on this? How do we fix this recurring problem?

This is what’s happening in Kashmir right now. Vulgarity is openly taking place in Lal Chowk. This is what we call demographic change. Indian forces are promoting these goons and encouraging them to do this. #Kashmir

An Australian tourist arrives in Kashmir and within days openly declares that this beautiful region is under illegal Indian occupation and rightfully belongs to the Kashmiri people and Pakistan.We Kashmiris have been saying exactly this for decades.Our culture is completely different from India. Our language is different. Our traditions, our identity — everything is distinct. We are not Indian, and we never will be.Since 1947, India has illegally occupied our land, suppressed our voice, and committed relentless brutality against our people:

• Children blinded by pellet guns
• Enforced disappearances
• Mass killings and torture
• Daily humiliation and military siege

They call it an “internal matter.” But the truth is now being spoken by outsiders who see the reality with their own eyes.We demand what was promised to us: the right to self-determination. We want freedom from this illegal occupation. We want justice. We want to live with dignity in our own homeland.Thank you

u/LukeDamantt

for your courage in speaking the truth. The world can no longer ignore the suffering of Kashmir.Free Kashmir.
End Indian brutality in Kashmir.#Kashmir #FreeKashmir #IndianOccupiedKashmir

In the aftermath of the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and autonomy in 2019, the Indian state has once again turned its attention to the religious life of Kashmiri Muslims. What began as a mapping of land and demographics has now expanded into the systematic profiling of mosques, shrines, and the clerics and people who run them.

The latest tool in this effort is a four-page questionnaire circulated by Jammu and Kashmir Police to Imams, Khateebs, muezzins, mosque management committees, and Bait-ul-Maal members.

The form, per reports, demands an unprecedented level of personal and institutional data. One page of the form focuses on the mosque itself and its ideological sect (Barelvi, Deobandi, Ahle-Hadith, etc.), year of construction, seating capacity, funding sources, monthly budget, bank accounts, land ownership (including Waqf details), and even structural specifics like number of floors.

The remaining part of the document seeks details of personal and professional lives of those entrusted with managing these sacred spaces. The act places Imams (prayer leaders) and Khateebs (preachers) under extensive scrutiny as they are required to submit a wide range of information, including detailed personal and family records - such as identity documents, educational backgrounds, and information about relatives, even those residing abroad.

The disclosure extends to digital and communication data as authorities in the region seek mobile numbers, handset IMEI details, and social media accounts across platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook, and YouTube of the people associated with these sacred places.

No just this, financial details are also mandated, including bank accounts, credit and ATM cards, sources of donations, grants, expenditures, and property holdings of the religious institutions and people associated with them. Additionally, people associated with the Masjids, Shrines and other religious institution have been asked to provide travel histories, disclose foreign contacts and organisational ties.

This is not a routine administrative exercise but part of a broader pattern of coercive control. It goes beyond security screening and mirrors the kind of surveillance Israel has imposed on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, where humanitarian groups are asked to provide extensive staff and family data as a condition for operating.

The same logic can be seen in Xinjiang, where China has subjected Uyghur Imams and other religious leaders to intense surveillance and repression, turning religious life into a target of state monitoring rather than protected freedom. In the occupied region, India’s Hindu nationalist establishment appears to be following a similar playbook, seeking to place Muslim community under tighter scrutiny and control.

The growing sentiment in Kashmir echoes that “This is not security. This is surveillance”. Muslim religious bodies in the region, including the Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU) led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, have strongly condemned the move.

A spokesperson for the Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU), a conglomerate of Islamic religious organisations in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, described the police profiling as “intrusive”. “It seeks information regarding mosques, their management committees, Imams, Khatibs and individuals associated with places of worship and even their family members,” the MMU said.

The Indian government’s questionnaire clearly seeks to criminalise faith, intimidate religious leadership, and build extensive databases to profile and target those who resist the ongoing occupation and policies of demographic and cultural engineering in Kashmir.

The timing is telling. This exercise follows the abrogation of Article 370, which many in Kashmir view as the beginning of a larger assault on Kashmiri identity, autonomy, and Islamic institutions. Mosques and shrines have been for long the heartbeat of community life, resistance, and spiritual solace but are now being treated as potential security threats rather than places of worship.

By such measures, India’s far right government is now institutionalising Islamophobia by turning every Imam and Khateeb into a suspect. Every detail captured. Every move monitored. Databases built to profile and target. This is control, suppression, and the total institutionalisation of surveillance.

The document is not merely collecting information about mosques; it is building a dossier on the people who animate them. In places like Kashmir and Gaza, that kind of data demand carries a heavier political meaning because it touches religion, security, and communal life at the same time.

Kashmir has a long history of resilience. From the streets to the pulpits, the message remains clear that Kashmir will resist and exist free from the occupation.