India’s film industry, Bollywood, is becoming notorious for inciting hate against Muslims by producing films that stereotype and depict Muslims as dangerous and as threats to India’s national security. It has clearly become lucrative for the film industry to boost Hindu nationalism by reinforcing the ruling BJP party’s narrative that Muslims are a threat to Hindus. A recent box office movie, The Kashmir Files, enjoyed immense popularity amongst Hindutva fans. A large number of film critics, Kashmiri Muslims, and others have described it as propaganda that inflames hatred against Muslims and distorts events to suit the ruling party’s Islamophobic agenda. The movie falsely depicts Kashmiri Muslims as complicit in an ill-perceived unproven genocide of the region’s Hindu Pandits. After viewing the movie, Hindutva fans chanted anti-Muslim slogans and promised to wreak vengeance against India’s Muslims.

Kashmiri American diaspora held a peaceful protest in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York City to convey to G20 countries, including the United Nations, that holding a G20 meeting in the disputed territory of Kashmir is meant to engineer a façade of normalcy in Kashmir. The digital trucks were also rented, which displaced the messages: “G20 risks legitimizing India’s illegal occupation of Kashmir,” “G20 in Kashmir violates UN resolutions,” “G20 in occupied Kashmir enables genocide,” “Say NO to G20 in Kashmir,” ”Modi: the face of Fascism,” “ “End the Occupation: Free Kashmir”, “Demilitarize Kashmir,” “India: Release All Political Prisoners.”

The members of the KDC board express deep concerns over the politically motivated developments on Muhammad Yasin Malik's illegal incarceration in Tihar jail. NIA has approached the Delhi High Court seeking to convert life imprisonment into the death penalty for a concocted ‘terror-funding’ case. Yasin Malik, one of Kashmir's most fearless, influential, and revered leaders, Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, has spent most of his life resisting Indian state violence, torture, and multiple jail sentences under what have been called India’s ‘Lawless Laws’ by human rights defenders.

The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), representing a wide spectrum of national, regional, and local Muslim associations in America, has issued a strong condemnation against the savage mob killing of 19-year-old scholar Maulana Saad and the torching of Anjuman Jama mosque, where he served as an imam, on August 1 in India.

An inspiring event took place in Northern Virginia, honoring local leaders for their unwavering dedication to the cause of Kashmir's freedom and their role as ambassadors for the people of Occupied Kashmir in the Washington metropolitan area and beyond. The event also celebrated Sardar Zarif Khan's appointment as Special Advisor to the President of Azad Kashmir in Washington, D.C., a testament to his remarkable contributions to the Kashmiri and Pakistani American communities. Dr. Pir Syed Ali Raza Bukhari, a distinguished parliamentarian from Azad Kashmir, Chairman of the International Sufi Peace Forum, and the Chief Guest of the occasion, praised Sardar Zarif Khan as a role model for Kashmiri American youth.

In a shocking revelation today, the Southern District of New York unsealed a superseding indictment, accusing Indian national Nikhil Gupta, 52, of orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate a U.S.-based leader of the Sikh separatist movement. Gupta, also known as Nick, was arrested by Czech authorities on June 30, 2023, pursuant to the bilateral extradition treaty between the United States and the Czech Republic.