Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday urged the international community especially women to become the voice of Kashmiri women for peace in the occupied Muslim-majority region of India that has been under a military lockdown for the last nearly 200 days.

The prime minister, while highlighting the Kashmir Women Resistance Day, said that the Indian forces had continuously engaged in war crimes against women of the Himalayan territory for the last almost 70 years. "Today is Kashmir Women Resistance Day. For 7 decades, Indian forces have committed war crimes against women in Indian Occupied Jammu Kashmir (IOJK). Their sufferings have multiplied after 5 Aug siege by Modi Govt," the PM wrote on Twitter.

"I urge [the] world community, especially women, to become [the] voice of resilient Kashmiri women for peace in IOJK," he added. Back on August 5, 2019, India had unilaterally scrapped Article 370 of its Constitution, effectively removing occupied Kashmir's special status, and imposed a military lockdown, as well as a communications blackout.